Venetian Sun on course for Prix Morny before stepping up in trip
'She's a very high-class filly and we're aiming her at the Morny,' said Burke.
'If everything is as it should be at that stage going into the race – we'll have a good opposition at the time – then she will probably go there.'
Owned by Brighton & Hove Albion supremo Tony Bloom along with Ian McAleavy, Venetian Sun is sure to move up in trip in a bid to replicate Burke's Fallen Angel at the Curragh in the Moyglare Stud Stakes on September 14.
But before that, the exciting youngster is being prepared to head to Deauville on August 17, where she has the chance to join the Middleham handler's 2017 winner Unfortunately on the Morny roll of honour.
'If we don't go to the Morny we will go straight to the Moyglare and all being well if she does take in the Morny, she will then go on to the Curragh and the Moyglare over seven as well,' continued Burke.
'We're very keen to step her up to seven, but the Morny is too big a prize to leave behind and it will be very interesting to see who stands their ground for the race and at the moment it's what she is being trained for.
'She came out of Newmarket bouncing fresh and she has just started picking up her work and we're ready to build her up for the Morny.'
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