Consistent filly Believing (Ire) (Mehmas {Ire}), second in Sunday's G1 Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh to Bradsell (GB) (Tasleet {GB}), will be given a break, according to trainer George Boughey. The Highclere Thoroughbred Racing and Jane Addams runner will return in either or both the G1 Prix de l'Abbaye in October or the GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar a month later.
“It will be interesting to see how she comes out of Sunday's race,” he said. “I was really pleased to hear from Ryan Moore on Sunday night that he felt she was better than ever.
“She'll have a bit of a break and we'll work out what we're going to do next. The Abbaye and the Breeders' Cup are the two entries she has. She's not going to get her ground on Champions Day at Ascot, so we didn't even enter her.”
A winner of the G3 Prix Texanita and third in the G1 Sprint Cup Stakes last term, Believing won a listed race at Haydock in June, before a pair of fourths in the G1 King Charles III Stakes and G1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, both at Royal Ascot. Back in the winner's circle in the G2 Sapphire Stakes over the minimum trip in July, she was third in the G2 King George Stakes at the beginning of August, and found only Bradsell too good in the G1 Nunthorpe Stakes later that month prior to her Flying Five placing.
He added, “I'm sure she'll be seen again this year, whether that's once or twice, we'll see. The draw is one of those things you can't change and the luck's been with Bradsell for the best part of this season. I think the last three five-furlong Group 1s of the year, the Flying Five, the Abbaye and the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, are all on incredibly draw bias tracks. The hope is we might hit one right one day.”
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