Enable gets green light to run in King George

Enable was a brilliant winner of the Investec Oaks. Picture: Racingfotos.com

Enable is an intended runner in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot on Saturday.

John Gosden’s filly has looked exceptional this season and will now take on her elders for the first time in one of the biggest races of the summer, which forms part of the QIPCO British Champions Series.

Teddy Grimthorpe, racing manager for Enable’s owner Prince Khalid Abdullah, said on Wednesday morning: “John is happy with her and she’s going to head to Ascot.”

Enable is the ante-post favourite for the King George after having won the Oaks at Epsom and the Irish Oaks at the Curragh by an aggregate distance of 10 and a half lengths.

At a media event hosted by QIPCO and Ascot on Tuesday, trainer John Gosden had said: “She took Ireland very well. She got a bit of a cut behind, but that’s healed.

“Her races have been well spread so far: Newbury to the Cheshire Oaks was about three weeks, then from the Cheshire Oaks to the Oaks was a month. Then, obviously six, seven weeks to the Irish Oaks. So, she’s been well spaced, and she’s done well physically.

“This is a two-week gap, but she took her race very well. She skipped clear of some very nice fillies in Ireland. She flew over, so she didn’t have the strain of a 15-hour journey through Holyhead on the ferry either.”

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