Last year's GI Beverly D. S. winner Euro Charline (GB) (Myboycharlie {Ire}) galloped 6 1/2 furlongs at Newmarket on the weekend and is expected to prepare for the G1 Dubai Turf–formerly called the Dubai Duty Free– on the Mar. 28 Dubai World Cup card with a racecourse gallop at Chelmsford City.
“Euro Charline did her first bit of serious work at the weekend and everything went fine,” said trainer Marco Botti.
“She always works well and showed the same attitude she showed last year. She could have a racecourse gallop or two as there is not a suitable [prep] race for her. The Winter Derby comes too close to the race and the Winter Derby Trial comes too soon, while the race at Wolverhampton [the Lady Wulfruna] is over seven furlongs, which is not ideal.”
Botti added, “I have still to ask for permission but it will probably be at Chelmsford City where she goes for one [gallop] because it is a left-handed track, which is the same as the track at Meydan.”
Euro Charline, who also won the Listed Valiant S. at Ascot last summer and was third in Royal Ascot's G1 Coronation S., has not run since the Beverly D. in August. She was briefly turned over to trainer Todd Pletcher to continue her career in the U.S. but her owners, Team Valor International, made the decision to return her to Botti in Europe.
“Of course I am delighted she is back, as she was probably one of the best fillies in Europe last year and if she improves again she will be right up there with the very best of them,” Botti said. “There will be plenty of races for her. She has progressed well since she has come back and so far we have not had any setbacks with her. She has always been tall and I don't think she has grown up, but she has definitely filled out in the neck and she is stronger than last year for sure.”
Botti noted future targets for the 4-year-old could include the G2 Duke of Cambridge S. at Royal Ascot against her own sex, or the G1 Queen Anne S. versus males.
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