Champion Stakes Is The Long-Term Target, As Anmaat Aims For Another Prix Dollar

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Group 1 winner Anmaat (Ire) (Awtaad {Ire}), who won the G2 Prix Dollar in the autumn of 2022, is targeting the race again prior to a crack at the G1 Champion Stakes at Ascot, trainer Owen Burrows revealed.

The Shadwell runner, who was second in the G3 Gordon Richards Stakes and a winner of the G1 Prix d'Ispahan both in 2023, went missing for 439 days afterwards. He resumed with a victory in the G3 Rose Of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock on Aug. 10, and had been a potential candidate for the G1 Irish Champion Stakes, but did not participate.

“Anmaat's going to go to the Prix Dollar on Arc weekend,” he said. “That's the plan for him, and then if all went well he could go for the Champion Stakes a few weeks later. We'll get France out of the way first and keep our fingers crossed.

“We felt the Irish Champion would have been throwing him to the wolves a little bit, he's a Group 1 winner already but we liked the idea of giving him the Group 2 race and then, all being well, he could back it up two weeks later.

“We're really pleased with how he is, he's in a really good place so fingers crossed he can stay there for the next two weeks and go in the form he's in at the minute.”

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