Anmaat done for 2022 but Burrows looks to Alflaila to continue fine season

Anmaat, who provided Owen Burrows with victory at Longchamp on Arc weekend, is unlikely to run again until 2023, but the trainer is not done for the year and hopes Alflaila can shine in Saturday's Masar Darley Stakes at Newmarket.

Owned by Shadwell, Anmaat showed a fine attitude to win the Group 2 Prix Dollar on Saturday but that race came on desperate ground.

"He got back in time for evening stables on Sunday night and seems fine," said Burrows. "He lost 4kg and trotted up sound and ate up.

"He travelled great into the race, but Jim [Crowley] said it was his sheer guts that got him through; the ground was plenty soft enough. He was headed but fought back gamely."

The late Hamdan Al Maktoum set Burrows up in Lambourn and his daughter Sheikha Hissa was at Longchamp to witness the four-year-old's success.

"It was a pleasing day and good performance," Burrows said. "I think that's it for him this season. I caught up with Angus [Gold] at the sales on Monday and I don't think the horse would want the ground too quick either with regard to another international trip this year. Sheikha Hissa was at the sales too and she was quite happy to say that will do for the year and we'll look forward to 2023, when we'll try to make him a Group 1 winner.

"If he's in good nick, we could look at a Tattersalls Gold Cup or the Ganay next spring."

Alflaila: impressed when last seen at YorkCredit: Edward Whitaker

Burrows became a Group 1-winning trainer this year thanks to Hukum in the Coronation Cup and Minzaal in the Sprint Cup, while a fine 32 per cent of his British runners this term have won.

"Alflaila's in on Saturday at Newmarket and has to carry a small penalty," he said. "If that went well he could go for the Bahrain International Trophy in the middle of November. That would be it for me in terms of runners for the year, bar a few two-year-olds to get out.

"Saturday was the only possible race for him and he's in good nick. He came out of York great and was entered in the same French race as Anmaat, but this is good timing for Bahrain."

Burrows will operate as a non-salaried trainer next season, when promising juveniles Tarjeeh and Lajooje will be among his string.

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