Criterion Could Stay For Sussex

Sir Owen Glenn’s Criterion (NZ) (Sebring {Aus}), fifth in Wednesday’s G1 Prince of Wales’s S. at Royal Ascot, could prolong his British trip and aim for the G1 Sussex S. at Glorious Goodwood July 29, trainer David Hayes told Racing Post. Criterion would be dropping back a quarter-mile in distance for the Sussex, where he could meet Tuesday’s G1 St. James’s Palace S. victor Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and G1 Queen Anne S. winner Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}). 

“We were thinking the Sussex S., which is a bit of a faster tempo mile,” Hayes told the publication. “I reckon he might be a good miler here but we’ll just let the dust settle and see what we do after.” 

Hayes said the long term goal is Australia’s G1 Cox Plate, the country’s most famed weight-for-age contest, in October. 
“He’s a horse that I think is an ideal Cox Plate horse,” the conditioner added. “He could run very well in it.”