French Oaks winner Laurens will skip the Irish Oaks at the Curragh with connections preferring the Yorkshire Oaks on August 23.
Karl Burke‘s charge has enjoyed a superb campaign so far, winning the Prix Saint-Alary and the Prix de Diane at LongChamp and Chantilly.
Burke is considering a run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in the autumn and will now skip an Irish trip and rest the bay filly.
He now admits that the three-year-old will head to York at the end of August.
The Yorkshire handler told reporters: “She has come out the race really well and there have been no issues.
“She will have a nice easy two or three weeks. We are not going to go for the Irish Oaks. We will miss that and hopefully go for the Yorkshire Oaks. If we try take in the Irish Oaks as well it will not give her a break before an autumn campaign so it makes sense to do that.
“We certainly hope we will go back to France for the Arc. The Yorkshire Oaks will tell us a lot more when we step up in trip again.”
Karl Burke‘s charge has enjoyed a superb campaign so far, winning the Prix Saint-Alary and the Prix de Diane at LongChamp and Chantilly.
Burke is considering a run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in the autumn and will now skip an Irish trip and rest the bay filly.
He now admits that the three-year-old will head to York at the end of August.
The Yorkshire handler told reporters: “She has come out the race really well and there have been no issues.
“She will have a nice easy two or three weeks. We are not going to go for the Irish Oaks. We will miss that and hopefully go for the Yorkshire Oaks. If we try take in the Irish Oaks as well it will not give her a break before an autumn campaign so it makes sense to do that.
“We certainly hope we will go back to France for the Arc. The Yorkshire Oaks will tell us a lot more when we step up in trip again.”
