Cox Plate Bid For Arod

Qatar Racing could have a runner in the Oct. 24 G1 Cox Plate, Australia’s most famed weight-for-age race, provided all goes well in quarantine for Arod (Ire) (Teofilo {Ire}). Already the winner of the G3 Diomed S. and G2 Summer Mile S. this year, the 4-year-old was runner-up to Solow (GB) (Singspiel {Ire}) in the G1 Sussex S. July 29 and missed an intended start in last weekend’s G1 Prix de Moulin de Longchamp due to the soft going.

“It would have been nice to have run in the Moulin before the Cox Plate and [last] Thursday the weather still looked fine for him,” said Qatar Racing’s Racing Manager David Redvers. “Unfortunately they got a lot of rain and it would have been pointless running him.”

“Quarantine starts on Sept. 24,” Redvers added. “The Cox Plate is on Oct. 24 so he comes out of quarantine on the day of the race. That could be brilliant timing–unless there is a hiccup with him or one of the other horses in quarantine.”