Chorist's gutsy performance in coming second in last Saturday's Champion Stakes has caused connections to consider keeping the mare in training next season.
The William Haggas-trained five-year-old had every chance to land the Newmarket Group One and produced a lifetime best in finishing behind Haafhd.
Bred and owned by the Cheveley Park Stud, Chorist had been due to head for the paddocks after the Champion Stakes, having enjoyed a very fruitful season in which she landed her first Group One victory, in the Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh.
The daughter of Pivotal also still holds an entry in a Group One in Rome this weekend, but looks doubtful to fulfil that engagement.
"She's still in the Premio Lydia Tesio on Sunday but I'd say going to Italy is probably unlikely," the Stud's managing director Chris Richardson told the Racing Post.
"The likelihood is that we probably won't go again this season but there has to be a possibility now that she could stay in training. Having missed the Prix de l'Opera (at Longchamp), the decision to run in the Champion was rather a last-minute one, but she ran a blinder and more than justified our decision."
Filed by James McMahon
