Replicating his sire in the Prix de la Foret and a tantalising Breeders’ Cup tilt are the likely targets for Sajir this autumn, following his Prix Maurice de Gheest heroics.<\/p>\n
Andre Fabre\u2019s four-year-old excelled at Deauville when claiming the feature Group One sprint in the hands of Oisin Murphy, lowering the colours of both defending champion and Royal Ascot scorer Lazzat and Prix Jean Prat winner Woodshauna, who filled the places.<\/p>\n
It was a performance which delighted connections and vindicated their belief in the son of Make Believe as he flew home in blistering fashion, also providing compensation for being withdrawn before the start of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes that Lazzat subsequently won at Ascot back in June.<\/p>\n
“He looked magnificent on Sunday and these victories don\u2019t happen often so you try to enjoy them more knowing they are not a regular thing,” said Ted Voute, racing adviser to owner Prince Faisal.<\/p>\n
“I rang Andre (on Monday) and the horse had just arrived back from Deauville to Chantilly and was sound. Obviously with the ground as rattling as it was, we were holding our breath a little, but he was sound as a pound.<\/p>\n
“He beat the form horses in second and third who had both won Group Ones themselves, so it franks everything and was won in the second fastest time ever in that race and the fastest time from a colt in that race \u2013 it writes quite a nice stallion advertisement.”<\/p>\n
Make Believe won the seven-furlong Prix de la Foret for Fabre in 2015 and Sajir will take a direct route to Longchamp on Arc day in a bid to emulate that achievement.<\/p>\n
That outing could well be followed by a trip to America for the Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile, with the master trainer also tempted to test the colt\u2019s stamina at Del Mar in November.<\/p>\n
Voute added: “He\u2019s in the Foret and Andre said directly after the race we will follow his father\u2019s footsteps. He runs best fresh, so I could see us going straight there.<\/p>\n
“Andre also said though that there is something about him that makes him feel the Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile at Del Mar wouldn\u2019t be a bad idea, so we might put him in the mix there and see how we get on.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s Andre\u2019s idea and he\u2019s a master of these sort of things and he just felt the layout of the course might play to his strengths a little bit.<\/p>\n
“There\u2019s a lot of water to go under the bridge before we get there, but it\u2019s not a bad target!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Replicating his sire in the Prix de la Foret and a tantalising Breeders’ Cup tilt are the likely…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032340901749423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}