Australian champion sprinter Chautauqua (Aus) (Encosta de Lago {Aus}) has returned to the Rosehill stables of Team Hawkes and is preparing for a spring campaign where he will race exclusively in Melbourne, according to Racing.com. The 6-year-old, who defended his G1 TJ Smith S. title at The Championships at Royal Randwick Apr. 2 before traveling to Hong Kong to take the G1 Chairman's Sprint Prize a month later, is set to take in the G1 Moir S. Sept. 30, followed by the G1 Manikato S. Oct. 21 and the G1 Darley Classic Nov. 5. He will then return to Hong Kong for the G1 Longines Hong Kong Sprint in December.
“He has spent the past couple of weeks in pre-training and is now back at Rosehill,” co-trainer Michael Hawkes told Racing.com. “We will just give him a few days to settle in and then look to step his work up. We've got eight weeks until the Moir S. so there is no need to rush with him, we will just take our time and get him right. But in terms of how he has come back, everything is fine at this stage. He is bright and well and looks great so all is fine.”
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