Soviet team decide on future plans
Wednesday, 19 July 2006 14:29Soviet Song is set to resume work at the weekend as connections ponder the mare's next race following her disappointing run at Newmarket.
The six-year-old failed to add to her tally of five Group One - and seven Pattern victories in all - in the Falmouth Stakes, a race she had won for the two previous years.
James Fanshawe's charge has had an easy time of it since finishing sixth of seven to Rajeem last Wednesday.
'She's fine. We're waiting for her to work this weekend and again in the middle of next week, Saturday and Wednesday I think, so we can then decide where, if and when she will run," said Matthew Budden, racing manager to owners and breeders, the Elite Racing Club.
'That will give James a better idea of how she's going.'
The Cantor Spreadfair Sussex Stakes at Goodwood on August 2, in which Soviet Song has finished first and second in the past two years, remains top of the list of options.
'She's in the Sussex and in the Prix d'Astarte at Deauville. We'll have a look at the two but I would have thought if she's in good form we would favour going for the Sussex and try to win that again,' Budden continued.
