Champions Day will come too soon for Royal Ascot winner American Affair, who will have to wait until next season to attempt to add to his Group One tally.<\/p>\n
The five-year-old was one of the most popular winners of the week in June, completing his rise from handicapper to Group One performer.<\/p>\n
Trainer Jim Goldie had hoped to run American Affair in the Nunthorpe but a problem emerged after Ascot that forced that plan to be abandoned and while Goldie had hoped to get his charge back in time for October, the gelding has now been taken out of the Qipco British Champions Sprint Stakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s not had a further setback as such, it\u2019s probably just an ongoing thing,\u201d said Goldie.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe bone scanned him after Ascot and we\u2019ve taken our time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBasically he had an MRI and the bone changes are still not improving, so realistically Ascot is going to come too quick.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmerica (for the Breeders\u2019 Cup) will need to be next year now. He\u2019s been back cantering but we\u2019re just being guided by the vets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all just coming a little quick, bone takes time to mature and it\u2019s a bit of bone bruising.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Champions Day will come too soon for Royal Ascot winner American Affair, who will have to wait until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-107091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}