Dame Malliot on target for Champions Day as Vaughan looks to bow out on a high

Newmarket trainer will hand in his licence at end of the season.
Ed Vaughan is looking to end his career on a high with Dame Malliot in the Qipco British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot on Saturday week. The Newmarket-based handler announced in July he was going to hand in his licence and his star filly could give him the perfect send-off with victory in the mile-and-a-half Group One on Qipco British Champions Day. Dame Malliot was third in the Prix Vermeille on her latest start – form which got a huge boost at ParisLongchamp at the weekend.“It’s worked out well, hasn’t it, and you know we were unlucky to be caught on the line for second by Raabihah, and look how well she ran in the Arc,” said Vaughan. “Wouldn’t it be a fairytale end for me if Dame Malliot went and won at Ascot, but you know it will be a tough race for her. “It would be a lovely way to go out, but opportunities in these races are few and far between for a trainer like me and at the bread and butter level, at which I’m mostly dealing, the costs are getting higher and higher.”
The @edvaughan1 trained Dame Malliot gives @HollieDoyle1 a day to remember @NewmarketRace after becoming her first Group race winner with victory in the Group Two Princess Of Wales’s Tattersalls Stakes pic.twitter.com/nrKnZQM8T7
— Graham Clark (@GrahamClark85) July 9, 2020
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