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Trainer Rae Guest left in Serious Attitude at yesterday’s scratchings stage for Wednesday, May 12’s Duke Of York Blue Square Stakes as connections mull over the four-year-old’s seasonal starting point.
The six-furlong Group 2 at York is very much under consideration for the daughter of Mtoto, who is already a course and distance winner, having landed the Group 3 Cuisine de France Summer Stakes last season.
After that success, Serious Attitude had one more run in 2009, finishing eighth in the Group 1 Prix Maurice de Gheest in Deauville.
That was only the second reverse from six starts for the filly, who has Group 1-winning form to her name thanks to victory in the Cheveley Park Stakes as a two-year-old.
Serious Attitude has enjoyed a lengthy break over the winter but is back in action again on the Newmarket gallops and Guest is considering the Duke Of York Blue Square Stakes as well as a couple of other possible targets.
The Newmarket-based trainer confirmed: “She is a York course and distance winner - that's why we put her in. We would like to go there but we will see what our options are closer to the time.
“She is very well and will do a couple more gallops before we decide if she is going to race there or not.
“We will take it as it comes and she is on schedule for that race but it is not definite yet.
“There are also fillies Listed races at Nottingham and Haydock in May that she'd get into with no penalty. So it will be one of those three races.
“Jimmy Fortune will ride her in a piece of work a week before and we will make our decision after that.
“I couldn't be more happy with her. She was turned out for three months and has come back in very well and strong.”
Jimmy Fortune last rode Serious Attitude competitively in the Cheveley Park Stakes in 2008.
Guest confirmed that Fortune, who is now a freelance, will be first in line for the ride again with Eddie Ahern (who was aboard the day she won the Cuisine de France) also in the picture.
Guest said: “They are two good jockeys. As long as Jimmy is available he will ride her. If he was not available, Eddie is our second choice.”
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