Royal Ascot Pencilled In For Passenger’s Return

[Wandering Eyes]

Multiple group winner Passenger is on the comeback trail and is reportedly thriving at new trainer George Scott's base ahead of a potential return at Royal Ascot next month.

The Niarchos family-owned runner and former Sir Michael Stoute trainee underwent surgery in August and has been recovering since.

“When Passenger arrived we were very much seeing which direction he took us in after his injuries, but he's been training beautifully and I'm very pleased with his trajectory at the moment,” said Scott of the Flaxman Stables homebred.

“You can easily see why he has been able to show a really high level of form during parts of his short career and of course it's very much a week-by-week thing with him, but I'm very pleased with his conditioning.”

The son of Ulysses won the G2 Huxley Stakes last May, and was third in the G2 York Stakes during which he sustained a condylar fracture that derailed the rest of his 2024 campaign. He was gelded in the interim and is pointing toward the Wolferton Stakes.

Scott added, “I guess with a horse like him and his rating, there are very few options and I'll be keeping half an eye on the Wolferton Stakes at Royal Ascot.

“The timing fits and if he does turn up in the Wolferton he would have been away for racecourse gallops, so I'm keeping an eye on the Royal meeting, but everything will have to go right and he will have to jump through every hoop.”

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