ROYAL Ascot-winning trainer Paul Perry heads to Canterbury today with three horses primed for winning runs.

Perry, who is based at Broadmeadow in Newcastle, saddles Our Corey in the Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap, Chiamaka (Canterbury Betting Auditorium Handicap) and Chromate (Al Mansour Handicap). The three are last-start winners.

Our Corey resumed from a spell with an easy Hawkesbury win, and Perry said the horse had been gelded during his break, which had made "all the difference".

"He has come back a much nicer horse," he said. "His win was real good first up and, although this is harder, he is going that well that I expect him to run terrific."

Chiamaka ran fourth behind Stripper at Rosehill on debut last December and at his second run back from a spell scored a Muswellbrook victory.

"The horse, one of these days, is going to win a real good race, and he has improved since the win at Muswellbrook," Perry said.

Chromate has won two of his past three starts including a Canterbury success most recently.

Perry said: "He is an older horse that is racing well and seems just as keen now as he was before his last two runs."

Danny Nikolic will ride Our Corey, Nash Rawiller partners Chiamaka and 1.5kg-claiming apprentice Peter Wells will be aboard Chromate.

John Schell