Enable set for Sandown appearance

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Gosden ponders Enable options

Trainer John Gosden has confirmed Enable’s season will be starting next month in the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown.

Enable landed her ninth-straight victory at Churchill Downs in November last year when landing the Longines Breeders’ Cup Turf and it was thought she would make her return to action at Royal Ascot later this month.

However, the five-year-old mare’s first run of the season will not be seen until July after Gosden revealed his charge would be skipping Ascot for a trip to Sandown instead.

‘She was having a good blow (after a gallop on the Limekilns), and we didn’t want to rush to run over a mile and a quarter going down into Swinley Bottom (at Ascot),’ he was quoted as saying by Sky Sports.

‘I always wanted to run in the Eclipse myself.

I had dropped a hint before and Frankie and I, with Teddy, said we are going to the Eclipse because it would be a much better place to start her out.

‘Hopefully then we can go to the King George, York, then hopefully the Arc.’

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