Side Glance takes aim at QEII

Side Glance will have his next start in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on October 15.

Andrew Balding’s four-year-old ran a fine race to finish fourth in the Woodbine Mile at the weekend, beaten just over a length.

He is likely to have to take on Frankel at Ascot but having already been gelded, Balding is keen to campaign him ambitiously.

Balding said: “Unfortunately Jimmy (Fortune) said that if he’d settled a bit better earlier in the race he would have gone very close, but he was just a bit too keen.

“The draw didn’t help either – he could never really get settled but he still ran well.

“Hopefully he’ll run in the QEII and then possibly to Hong Kong.

“He’s a gelding so he should be around for a few years yet.”