Bearstone Stud's Glass Slippers (GB) (Dream Ahead) is on track to make her first start since winning last year's GI Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint in Goodwood's G2 King George S. on July 30. The three-time Group 1 winner finished second in that race last year to Battaash (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}), and is set to meet that champion sprinter again.
Trainer Kevin Ryan said of Glass Slippers, “She's great and is heading for Goodwood now. She'll start her season down there.”
A winner of the 2019 G3 Prix du Petit Couvert and G1 Prix de l'Abbaye in consecutive starts, Glass Slippers had been set to return in the G1 King's Stand S. at Royal Ascot, but was sent to the sidelines with a pulled muscle. She captured her second Group 1 in the Flying Five S. at The Curragh last September and the bay ran second in the 2020 l'Abbaye prior to her Breeders' Cup heroics.
“She just pulled a muscle and had to have a couple of days easy,” Ryan explained of the daughter of the Mind Games (GB) mare Night Gypsy (GB). “We weren't going to take any chances with her. She's fine now and we're looking forward to Goodwood.”
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