A shock 40-1 winner of last season\u2019s Qipco Champion Stakes, the seven-year-old has made it to the track only twice this term, filling the runner-up spot in both the Tattersalls Gold Cup in May and the Prince of Wales\u2019s Stakes the following month.<\/p>\n
Having since sidestepped the Coral-Eclipse and the Juddmonte International due to unsuitable ground, connections are hoping for some ease underfoot in Ireland to allow Anmaat to return to the fray.<\/p>\n
Angus Gold, racing manager for owners Shadwell, said: \u201cOwen is desperate to run him, touch wood he\u2019s been pleased with the horse and we need to get him out really.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just can\u2019t take a chance \u2013 he\u2019s our best horse and we can\u2019t afford to do the wrong thing by him with the autumn to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had plenty of rain in Ireland recently, so I\u2019m expecting he will be there, all being well.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s shown already this year that he retains all his enthusiasm and ability, so hopefully we get him to Leopardstown in one piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anmaat is a general 7-1 shot for the Irish Champion Stakes, with Delacroix a 4-5 favourite with some firms following the news on Wednesday that Ombudsman will not run next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shock 40-1 winner of last season\u2019s Qipco Champion Stakes, the seven-year-old has made it to the track…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-113636","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\/113636","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=113636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}