Baaeed goes to the Juddmonte International “in good shape” despite the viruses afflicting his William Haggas stablemates Alenquer and Maljoom.
Alenquer was announced a non-runner from the ten-furlong Group 1 after returning a dirty scope, days after the same complaint had ruled Maljoom out of last Sunday’s Prix Jacques le Marois. But Angus Gold, racing manager to the unbeaten star’s owner, the late Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum’s daughter, Sheikha Hissa, said yesterday: “All you can do – all the trainer and their team can do – is check everything they possibly can.
“They have scoped him and he was clean as I understand it, so you can’t invent problems. You’d probably rather not have seen a couple of stablemates scope dirty but you get plenty of that at this time of year. Just because one’s sick, it doesn’t mean the others are and hopefully it’s nothing significant. All we can do is do the tests on him and he’s scoped well so far, so we’re going there in good shape.”
