Andrew Balding has set his sights on some big race targets following Side Glance's victory in the Group Three Sovereign Stakes.
A meeting with Frankel could be on the cards for Side Glance
Andrew Balding has set his sights on some big race targets following Side Glance's first Group-race success in the Group Three totepoolSovereign Stakes at Salisbury.
The four-year-old has shown huge improvement this season, recording impressive Listed-race victories at Ascot and Windsor before placing a slightly unlucky third behind Dick Turpin in the Summer Mile.
The Rectifier cut out the early running in this Group Three prize, with Jimmy Fortune his nearest pursuer on 2-1 favourite Side Glance.
The leader proved a tough nut to crack but Side Glance battled his way to the front and had enough in hand as the post loomed to hold off the strong-finishing Dance And Dance by a neck.
Atlantic Raid
Balding is now considering a trip across the Atlantic for his exciting gelding, after which he could take on the unbeaten Frankel in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot (October 15).
Balding told
Racing UK: "I think there might still be a bit more to come.
"The Rectifier gave us a lovely lead and he's a decent horse, but Jimmy said he'd be better off in a strongly-run race where we could sit a bit further back.
"What we'd intended beforehand if he ran well enough was to go to Toronto for the Woodbine Mile in mid-September.
"It's a $1million race and the track would suit him down to the ground. Although it's on the turn it's a galloping track and they tend to go a good gallop there.
"He's run exceptionally well on the straight track at Ascot and that is why he's entered in the QEII. It's pretty good prize-money for third and fourth and I think that's probably a likely autumn target.
"He's a gelding and he's been bought to race, so that's what he'll do, hopefully."
