Sajir team plot familiar route for Deauville winner
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their belief in the son of Make Believe as he flew home in blistering fashion, also providing compensation for being withdrawn before the start of the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes that Lazzat subsequently won at Ascot back in June.
Sajir springs a shock in the Group One Prix Maurice de Gheest! 🏆 pic.twitter.com/JEJqGTe1b7
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'He looked magnificent on Sunday and these victories don't 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.
'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.
'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 – it writes quite a nice stallion advertisement.'
Make Believe won the seven-furlong Prix de la Foret for Fabre in 2015 and Sajir will take a direct route to ParisLongchamp on Arc day in a bid to emulate that achievement.
Sajir winning at Newmarket earlier this season (Mike Egerton/PA)
That outing could well be followed by a trip to America for the Breeders' Cup Mile, with the master trainer also tempted to test the colt's stamina at Del Mar in November.
Voute added: 'He's in the Foret and Andre said directly after the race we will follow his father's footsteps. He runs best fresh, so I could see us going straight there.
'Andre also said though that there is something about him that makes him feel the Breeders' Cup Mile at Del Mar wouldn't be a bad idea, so we might put him in the mix there and see how we get on.
'It's Andre's idea and he's a master of these sort of things and he just felt the layout of the course might play to his strengths a little bit.
'There's a lot of water to go under the bridge before we get there, but it's not a bad target!'
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