Anodor (Fr) (Anodin {Ire}), who won the G3 Prix des Chenes last September, may have a prep run in ParisLongchamp's G3 Prix de Fontainebleau before going for the G1 Poule d'Essai Des Poulains. Trainer Freddy Head will consider the 1600-metre feature in April before going back there in search of Classic success in the French 2000 Guineas a month later.
“He's doing very well–he is in full training,” said Head of the colt, who ran third in the G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere in the wake of Royal Marine (Ire) (Raven's Pass) on Oct. 7. “The French Guineas, that will be the aim for the moment. I think maybe he will have a prep race in the Fontainebleau.”
Head is looking to give G1 Qatar Prix du Cadran hero Call The Wind (GB) (Frankel {GB}) a run on home soil first, before sending him to Meydan for the G2 Dubai Gold Cup on Mar. 30.
“He's due to run in Dubai in the Gold Cup,” added the trainer. “He could run before that in France. I'm very happy with him.”
Another Head-trained Group 1 winner, G1 Prix Maurice de Gheest heroine Polydream (Ire) (Oasis Dream {GB}), is returning next week after a winter break. She was scratched from the GI Breeders' Cup Mile on the order of the state veterinarians in November.
“She is still on her holidays. I am expecting her back next week,” he said of the Wertheimer & Frere homebred. “I don't know what we will do with her yet. As far as I know, she is very well.”
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