DAVID O'MEARA is hoping Watchable can help him grasp York Racecourse's top trainer title for a second successive season.

The Nawton-based trainer has saddled nine winners on Knavesmire in 2014 - giving him a three victory lead over Malton's Richard Fahey.

With York preparing to bring the curtain down on the year with this weekend's Countryside Meeting tomorrow and Saturday, O'Meara is taking nothing for granted.

Two years ago, Fahey mounted a late charge to overhaul O’Meara, securing that seventh straight leading trainer at York title in the process.

O'Meara has entered five horses in Saturday's £75,000 Coral Sprint Trophy - the most valuable race over the two days - and it is Watchable, who was 12th of 27 in the Ayr Gold Cup, whom he is keen to see perform once again.

“We won it last year," said O'Meara of the trainer's title. "The year before, we led it right up until, I think, the second last day. It would be very satisfying if we can win it again.

"But three winners is hardly enough of a cushion over Richard Fahey going into the last meeting.

“It’s one of our local tracks and one of the premier racecourses, so we do target it to have plenty of runners there and hopefully some winners.”

On the Coral Sprint Trophy, O'Meara added: "Watchable and Highland Acclaim would be the two that are most likely to turn up (for that race).

"Watchable is a very progressive horse. He couldn’t win at Ayr where he was drawn. I’ve been wanting to run him on ground with ease in it all year, although he has done a lot of his winning on fast ground.”

O’Meara also has an entry in the Listed Coral.co.uk Rockingham Stakes in Miss Mullberry.

She has done all her racing over the minimum trip of five furlongs to date, including a conditions stakes success at Ripon on her penultimate start.

With the ground on the soft side, she is a possible, rather than a probable at this stage.

O’Meara said: “I’m not sure yet. She would obviously be trying six furlongs for the first time, so she wouldn’t want it too soft.”