Dawn set to miss Champion

AWAIT THE DAWN is “unlikely” to take his chance in the Qipco Champion Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained four-year-old has not run since disappointing in the Juddmonte International at York in August, after which he was found to have a temperature.

O’Brien’s wife Anne-Marie tweeted: “Await The Dawn is unlikely to run in the Qipco Champion Stakes this weekend as we feel the race is coming a little too soon for him.”