Enable and Laurens lined up for York assignments

Enable with Frankie Dettori win the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Picture: Racingfotos.com

Star fillies Enable and Laurens are on course to run in QIPCO British Champions Series races at York in August.

Enable is pleasing trainer John Gosden as she continues to build towards a planned late-summer return.

The four-year-old’s five Group 1 triumphs last year included the Investec Oaks, QIPCO-sponsored King George & Queen Elizabeth Stakes and Darley Yorkshire Oaks.

However, an early-season setback saw her ruled out of the first part of the current campaign, with Gosden and owner Khalid Abdullah now eyeing the Juddmonte International at York on August 22 as a potential starting point.

Gosden said: “Enable is happy and well and she’s moving nicely at home. Plan A is the Juddmonte, if that comes too soon, Plan B will be the Prix Vermeille (at ParisLongchamp on September 16).”

Meanwhile, Laurens, the QIPCO 1000 Guineas runner-up, who has since gone one better in two Group 1 aces in France, including the French Oaks on Sunday, is on course to run in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks on August 23.

Burke told At The Races: “The obvious next step is to to step her up in trip. I’m pretty sure we’ll go for the Yorkshire Oaks now, I’ll give her a two or three week break and miss the Irish Oaks.

“That seems to make sense as then we’ve got an autumn campaign. If we go to the Irish Oaks she won’t have chance to get a proper break.

“The Nassau (at Goodwood) has never been on the agenda. She’s had three Group Ones in six weeks, she’s travelled down by road to France twice and I think we’re all pretty keen to give her a break.