LEADING miler Ribchester has been given the go-ahead to run in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Del Mar.
Richard Fahey’s stable star was beaten in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day at Ascot last weekend and it was announced earlier this week that this was to be his final year on the track ahead of a career at stud in 2018.
Fahey suggested that the soft ground blunted Ribchester’s speed at Ascot, with the trainer evidently keen to run the four-year-old one final time on a quick surface, a wish that appears to have been granted.
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“He has kept his coat, he looks a picture, and clearly, he wants to go,” Fahey told www.godolphin.com.
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“He has done everything but tell me himself that he should be on the plane to California.
“I’m very happy with him. He’s in great order.”
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