Al Kazeem heads to next Series race, the Coral-Eclipse

Al Kazeem with jockey James Doyle and his jubilant owners after his Prince of Wales’s Stakes victory last Wednesday. Image courtesy of racingfotos.com.

Al Kazeem, who came with a late run to collar the long time leader, Mukhadram, inside the final furlong of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot last week, will contest the next Series race at Sandown Park on Saturday week.

The Coral-Eclipse Stakes has a glittering roll of honour and Al Kazeem is sure to start favourite for the mile and a quarter contest.

With his trainer, Roger Charlton, confident that he will be better over a mile and a half, they are gearing his season around the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in Paris in early October.

The hope remains, however, that llike several others who have run in the Arc in the last two years, he may come on to the QIPCO Champion Stakes over a mile and a quarter at Ascot on Saturday 19 October, QIPCO British Champions Day.