By Daithi Harvey
Trainer Owen Burrows has enjoyed a fruitful recent spell and he is looking forward to stepping Massaat (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}) back up to group 1 company following the colt's successful reappearance in the G2 Hungerford S. at Newbury recently. Burrows had a frustrating time with the 4-year-old last year and after finishing second to Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}) in the G1 QIPO 2000 Guineas his season unravelled as two disappointing efforts followed. Surgery to remove a chip from a fetlock was required after his penultimate start in August of last year and another stable-related injury after that saw Massaat spend a year off the track. Thankfully for Burrows and the Shadwell team it appears Massaat is showing no ill-effects from those niggles and a trip to France looks likely for his next target.
“He's well and has come out of Newbury fine,” Burrows said. “He's in the Moulin. That's on September 10. We'll see. He's in the Foret three weeks later and it's the [G1] QEII three weeks after that. It will be one of the French races he'll go for, then the QEII,” the trainer confirmed.
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