By Daithi Harvey
When the Kevin Ryan-trained Syphax (Arch) finished strongly to nab Godolphin's Best Of Days (GB) (Azamour {Ire}) in the G3 Tattersalls Acomb S. at York last August, the Godolphin team were sufficiently impressed to add the winner to their own string while allowing Kevin Ryan to continue to train him. Ryan is now hatching a plan for the unbeaten 3-year-old that may see the colt being aimed at the G1 Investec Epsom Derby. To remain on the Derby path the Syphax will first have to pass some early season trials with Ryan looking at the G2 Dante S. at York as one such trial with a prep for that race also on the agenda. “We had planned to go straight to the Dante, but the plan is now to run at Newcastle April 14 in a conditions race. It will be good to get a run into him before going to York,” said Ryan. Sypahx went from a $25,000 Keeneland yearling in 2015 to a €100,000 Arqana breezer last May and Ryan has seen further physical development in him since last season. “He has done fantastically well over the winter and I am very happy with him. He obviously won the Acomb at the track and all being well he can go there in good shape,” he added.
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