Classic Winner Cachet Eyeing Sceptre Return At Doncaster

Classic winner Cachet (Ire) (Aclaim {Ire}) is approaching her long-awaited return and is targeting the G3 Sceptre S. at Doncaster during the St Leger meeting next week, trainer George Boughey revealed.

Boughey told SBK, “I'm very happy with her. She's in as good a form as I could have her considering the lay-off she's had. She's been away to Chelmsford, and we worked her at Kempton on Thursday morning. She's worked in between on fast ground at home in Newmarket. Fast ground is really key to her. The surfaces on the all-weather are very deep at the moment due to the heat. Her work is good away from home but it's even better on the grass.”

Placed in the G2 Rockfel S. and G1 Fillies' Mile and fourth in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf as a juvenile, the Highclere Thoroughbred Racing runner won the G3 Nell Gwyn S. upon resuming as a 3-year-old. The 'TDN Rising Star' then ran out a narrow winner of the G1 1000 Guineas and as second in the G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches in May of 2022. Last seen running fifth in Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation S. that June, she has been on the sidelines since. Boughey is considering either the G1 Sun Chariot S. at Newmarket on Oct. 7, or the G1 Prix de la Foret at ParisLongchamp on Oct. 1 after her Sceptre start, with a return to the Breeders' Cup also a possibility.

“If we get a warm autumn and the Sun Chariot S. comes up good or better, then that would be my preference over the Forêt,” he added. “She's proven how good she is at Newmarket's Rowley Mile. The Breeders' Cup has always been in the back of our minds at the end of the year too, but there are a few bridges to cross before we get there.”

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Middle Park Remains Target For Ebro River

The Sept. 25 G1 Middle Park S. at Newmarket remains the main goal for Group 1 winner Ebro River (Ire) (Galileo Gold {GB}), Hugo Palmer confirmed on Friday. Racing in the Al Shaqab silks, the colt will bid to add to his Group 1 haul after taking the G1 Keeneland Phoenix S. at The Curragh on Aug. 8.

Said Palmer, who trained Ebro River's sire Galileo Gold to wins in the G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James's Palace S., “I've left him in the [Sept. 18 G2] Mill Reef [at Newbury] just in case it looks like being soft there and it looks like being firm ground at Newmarket, but I'm not sure many have carried a Group 1 penalty in that race.

“He is very unlikely to go to the [G1] National S. [at The Curragh on Sept. 12] and the [G1 Prix] Jean Luc Lagardere [at ParisLongchamp on Oct. 3] is a possibility, but I think six furlongs is his trip. The Middle Park is the main aim and that is where we want to go but we have kept the other options just in case.”

Successful at second asking at Doncaster in May, Ebro River added the Listed National S. at Sandown on May 27. Only fifth in the G2 Coventry S. at Royal Ascot, the chestnut reported home fourth in the G2 Tattersalls July S. and July 29 G2 Unibet Richmond S. prior to his top-level score.

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