Al Shaqab Racing's G1 Prix Morny hero The Wow Signal (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}) is set to have a racecourse gallop at Pontefract Tuesday ahead of the G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas. Trainer John Quinn scrapped plans to take him to Wetherby a week ago and has decided to put him through his paces at the West Yorkshire track. A winner of the G2 Coventry S. at Ascot in addition to his French triumph, The Wow Signal now appears unlikely to take in the
G3 Greenham S. at Newbury Apr. 18 and is set instead to go straight for the first colts' Classic at Newmarket May 2.
“I'm very pleased with him and I'm going to take him to Pontefract Tuesday, I'm very grateful to Mr. [Norman] Gundill and his team there for allowing us,” Quinn told Racing UK. “While he will be entered in the trials, I would prefer to take him straight to the Guineas. I wanted to run him in the Greenham, but the Guineas is only two weeks later and I don't think two weeks is enough, as he puts everything in. He's well on his way and is having a day out at Pontefract. He's a very good colt and I feel he will stay a mile.”
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