BAAEED’S PARIS MATCH
Rising star to race in France before crack at QEII
BAAEED, the class act at Glorious Goodwood last week, will head to France before bidding to land the QEII Stakes at Ascot on Qipco Champions’ Day in October.
The unbeaten colt extended his winning sequence to four with an impressive victory in the Thoroughbred Stakes.
William Haggas, who trains the son of the 2009 Derby winner Sea The Stars, said: “It’s the Moulin on September 5 at Longchamp or the back-up is Goodwood on August 28.
“If all goes well in Paris, then it’s the QEII but if it’s bottomless he probably won’t go.”
Haggas has earmarked the recently gelded Al Aasy for Australia in April, along with his stablemate Addeybb.
Pyledriver, who won the Coronation Cup at Epsom in June, heads for the Juddmonte Stakes at York in a fortnight’s time after injury ruled the four-year-old out of last month’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot.
“He’ll be back in fast work next Tuesday and then two bits of work and he’ll probably be bang on,” said his joint-trainer Willie Muir.
“We’re then looking at the Arc.”
❒ OISIN MURPHY, attempting to become champion jockey for the third successive year, added to his magnificent five-timer at Kempton on Wednesday with a treble at Brighton yesterday.