Jash options open for Royal Ascot
Connections of Jash are happy to bide their time when it comes to deciding on his Royal Ascot target.
The three-year-old made a winning reappearance at Newmarket last weekend and last year’s Middle Park runner-up has been ruled out of the St James’s Palace Stakes, with the Group Three Jersey Stakes or Group One Commonwealth Cup on the agenda. Racing manager to owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum, Angus Gold, says trainer Simon Crisford has been pleased by how Jash has emerged from that Listed win at HQ and will ponder his options before making a call on his goal for the Royal meeting. Gold said: ‘The targets are either the Commonwealth Cup or the Jersey Stakes. Talking to Simon Crisford, he has come out of the race well.‘Some people have said that he didn’t stay the seven furlongs, but then he has never looked an out-and-out six-furlong sprinter. ‘As a physical specimen, he always looked like he would go further, but you can’t deny he didn’t pull away from them at Newmarket, which we hoped to see. ‘I’m sure he is going to be better (for the run), as he is a big, stuffy horse and took a long time to come to himself during the spring. ‘Sometimes they just need the discipline of a race to get back to it.’
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