No Ascot For Australian Filly

[Wandering Eyes]

Luck Favours (Aus) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), Rosemont Stud’s juvenile filly bred in Australia on Northern Hemisphere time, will not make the trip to Royal Ascot as planned after spiking a temperature. Trainer Mark Young said in a video posted to Twitter by Rosemont Stud, “We regularly check as we go and feed them in the morning, [and] she left most of her feed. We took her temperature, and she had a temperature spike; you have to act in the best interests of the horse.”

“She’s cancelled [for Royal Ascot], but that’s not to say the idea is cancelled, and [we’re not ruling out] she won’t be [in Europe] later on. She’ll get the best treatment and have a rest, and we’ll get her big and strong.”

Luck Favours was set to fly to Britain Wednesday night with Lindsay Park’s Group 1-winning sprinter Redkirk Warrior (Aus) (Notnowcato {GB}), and that 7-year-old gelding was still able to make the trip.

“He’s coming home in a way, he’s originally from England,” Lindsay Park co-trainer Ben Hayes told Racing.com. “He was trained out of Newmarket as a young horse, it’s been a couple of years but I’m sure he’ll remember it, he’ll know the tracks so he should settle in quite quickly. He’ll arrive on Thursday early in the morning and he’ll be floated up to Newmarket where he’ll stay at Jane Chapple-Hyam’s stable. She’s got fantastic facilities, she has a walker and a treadmill and it’s right near the gallops as well.”

“He’ll settle in and have a couple of easy days, and we’ll look to canter him on the third or fourth day, and he’ll complete his final gallop seven days out from his race,” Hayes added. “We are very confident he’ll travel well, he’s travelled from England to Hong Kong, to Australia so he is no stranger to planes.”

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