Evergreen gelding Sovereign Debt (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), who won his third straight race and fourth overall in 2017 in Epsom's G3 Investec Diomed S. on Saturday, will bypass Royal Ascot's G1 Queen Anne S. and will instead stick to the level at which he has been recently successful, trainer Ruth Carr told At The Races.
“We've decided he definitely won't be going to Royal Ascot– we're going to keep chipping away at the Group 3s and Group 2s,” Carr said. “We know he's capable at that level and it keeps his confidence high. He might just be a better horse round a bend than on a straight track at Ascot, and there are plenty of other races to look at. There's the [G2] Celebration Mile at Goodwood and a race over one-mile-one at York [the G3 Strensall S.] we can look at. He seems to be in the form of his life.”
The 8-year-old Sovereign Debt won the Irish Thoroughbred Marketing Cup in Qatar on Feb. 24 for the late David Nicholls before being transferred to Carr upon that trainer's retirement. Third in the Listed Magnolia S. on Apr. 1, he has since taken a Lingfield conditions race, the G2 bet365 Mile and the Diomed.
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