Calandagan is limbering up for the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot after aiding stablemate Daryz in preparing for his Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe victory.<\/p>\n
The latter horse took the biggest race in Europe for trainer Francis-Henri Graffard and the Aga Khan Studs on Sunday, and soon it will be the turn of workmate Calandagan to take aim at a glittering autumn prize.<\/p>\n
He is due to run at the Qipco British Champions Day meeting at Ascot later this month and is evidently in good form having finished stride for stride with the subsequent Arc hero in a final piece of work before ParisLongchamp.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalandagan worked with Daryz prior to him running in the Arc,\u201d said Nemone Routh, French racing manager to the Aga Khan Studs.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey worked very well together, so he\u2019s clearly in top form. He has a couple more pieces of work to do and then he\u2019ll be ready to run in the Champion Stakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s all systems go for the race, he\u2019s very professional now in the mornings and does everything very easily.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did prepare Daryz for the Arc and they finished their gallop together, so he\u2019s obviously in good form!\u201d<\/p>\n
Calandagan was last seen taking the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on good going, but he was second in the Champion Stakes on soft turf last term and was untroubled by the surface as he was beaten only half a length.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhilst we think he\u2019s better on good ground, he\u2019s perfectly capable of handling soft ground as well,\u201d Routh added.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is very well within himself and assuming all goes well between now and then, Ascot is where he\u2019ll be heading.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Calandagan is limbering up for the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot after aiding stablemate Daryz in preparing for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-183216","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\/183216","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=183216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}