Haggas eyes extra Sydney riches and ending five-year Melbourne hiatus
Lake Forest missed the race that was to check his Golden Eagle credentials at York on Saturday, however William Haggas stays hopeful of being in Australia this spring.
And it isn’t simply Sydney options that the canny English coach has his eyes on.
Haggas stated real consideration is being given to an assault on the Caulfield Cup with Galileo total Klondike.
A Northern Hemisphere four-year-old, Klondike was Haggas’ lone entry for the $5 million Group 1 over 2400m at Caulfield on October 19 and is scheduled to endure Racing Victoria’s veterinary testing on September 9 earlier than doubtlessly coming into quarantine three days later.
“I’m at all times eager to return to Australia if we will and this can be a good, good, staying horse who likes quick floor, so he’s received the correct profile,” Haggas stated from York on the weekend.
Klondike has had eight begins for 3 wins, the latest coming within the Group 3 Prix De Reux (2500m) at Deauville on August 3.
Haggas considers Klondike extra suited to the Caulfield Cup than the $8 million Melbourne Cup (3200m), entries for which shut subsequent Tuesday.
Haggas has not had a runner in Victoria because the spring of 2019 when Raheen Home was unplaced within the Herbert Energy Stakes and Bendigo Cup.
He has loved nice success in Sydney within the interim, by way of the likes of Addeybb and Dubai Honour, and has not closed the door on a begin within the $10 million Golden Eagle with Lake Forest even after final weekend’s late scratching after enjoying up within the obstacles.
The son of No Nay By no means was a late scratching from the Group 2 Metropolis Of York Stakes (1408m), which was to be the primary begin past six furlongs (1207m) for the colt who has gained two of his seven begins and was runner-up within the Group 1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot in June.
“Lake Forest was operating right here to see if he’d get seven-and-a-half (furlongs) for the Golden Eagle after which he received his leg over the stalls and couldn’t run,” Haggas stated.
“He’s the one I’d wish to run in Sydney on November 2nd.
“We’ll run at Doncaster now within the Park Stakes. Quarantine doesn’t begin till the tip of September, so he’ll go for a seven-furlong race at Doncaster.”
This 12 months’s Group 2 Park Stakes (1414m) will likely be run on September 14.
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