Channon weighs up options for Flashy Wings
The Zafonic filly worked at West Ilsley as Channon and owner Jaber Abdullah decide where she should next run after last month’s impressive Lowther Stakes win.
The Group One Sky Bet Cheveley Park Stakes on September 29 has been the proposed target for Flashy Wings but she also has an alternative engagement in Saturday’s Watership Down Stud Sales Race at Newbury.
Channon is keen to run the filly while the ground is suitable rather than gambling on whether it will be fast at Newmarket later in the month.
“I was very pleased with her. She worked very well and there are no problems with her,” said Channon.
“I will have to talk to the owner now and see where we go from here.
“I would love to run her as we know she likes this ground and we don’t know what will happen in three weeks.
“That’s my logic, but I need to speak to the owner.”
Flashy Wings has won all of her four starts this season, including the Queen Mary Stakes, and is currently 7-1 favourite with Coral for next year’s 1000 Guineas.
Meanwhile, Eoghan O’Neill is weighing up the possibility of an audacious bid for the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile with Doncaster dead-heater Silent Times.
The Danehill Dancer colt and Terry Mills’ Close To You could not be split in last week’s Group Two Champagne Stakes over seven furlongs.
That performance was a big step up on Silent Times’ recent form which had seen him win his maiden before finishing third behind Horatio Nelson in the Futurity Stakes at the Curragh.
O’Neill is now considering a trip across the Atlantic for the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Belmont Park on October 29.
“America remains a possibility,” he said. We will see how he is and see how much he progresses but it’s definitely not out of the question.
“He made significant improvement in his work between the Curragh and Doncaster.”
