Andrew Balding may run Elm Park in bet365 Mile at Sandown
Monday 11 April 2016 10:21, UK
Andrew Balding may start Group One winner Elm Park off in the bet365 Mile at Sandown later this month.
The Kingsclere handler has identified the Group Two prize at Sandown on April 22 as a possible starting point for the four-year-old ahead of a potential tilt at next month's Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes at Newbury.
Having secured four wins from five starts as a two-year-old, culminating with victory in the Racing Post Trophy, the son of Phoenix Reach failed to hit the same heights last season, with his sole success in a mile Listed contest at Sandown last September.
Balding said: "He is going very well at home and he looks great.
"He has definitely grown and developed physically.
"We might go to Sandown for the Group Two race there at the end of the month.
"He's in the Lockinge and we will see about that as I am still not sure what his best trip is.
"We will start him off over a mile and then look to go further mid-summer, I'd imagine."
