Australia Campaign for Gordon Lord Byron

AUSTRALIA CAMPAIGN FOR BYRON 
Dual Group 1-winning sprinter Gordon Lord Byron (Ire) (Byron {GB}) is preparing for an Australian campaign that will include targets at inaugural running of The Championships in Sydney in April. The G1 Prix de la Foret and G1 Betfred Sprint Cup winner will first aim for the G1 George Ryder S. at Rosehill Mar. 29, after which he will prepare for either the A$3 million G1 Doncaster Mile H. or the A$2.5 million T J Smith S., both on the first card of The Championships Apr. 12. 
“He goes in quarantine on February 10 and will fly to Australia in the last week of February,” trainer Tom Hogan told PA Sport. “He’ll be entered in the Doncaster H. and the TJ Smith S. on the big day on April 12, and we’ll decide which race he’ll run in nearer the time. The plan would be to give him a prep race a fortnight earlier in the George Ryder S. over seven furlongs on March 29. The T J Smith is a six-furlong race and the Doncaster H. is over a mile. He seems pretty proficient at both distances and in between.” 
The 6-year-old Gordon Lord Byron was last seen finishing fourth in the G1 Longines Hong Kong Mile Dec. 8. Hogan added: “We don’t turn him out in the winter time, so he’s just been ticking over since he ran in Hong Kong in December. We’d like to think he could improve again this year and as he’s a gelding, we’ll just follow the money and hope he can pick up a big pot somewhere along the line. He wants a flat track and nice ground, which it doesn’t look like we’re going to get in this part of the world any time soon. After he’s been to Australia, he’ll probably go back to Hong Kong in May.”