Burke eyes damp Champions Day for Quiet Reflection comeback

Karl Burke was singing in the Ascot rain on Saturday as Raydiance won the Listed Pat Eddery Stakes and he is keeping his fingers crossed for a wet autumn when he hopes to get stable star Quiet Reflection back to the Berkshire track for the Qipco British Champions Sprint on October 21.

Last year's Commonwealth Cup heroine has not been seen since finishing tenth of 12 in the Temple Stakes at Haydock in May, but Burke is thrilled with her wellbeing.

Owned by an Ontoawinner syndicate, Hubert Strecker and the trainer, she is entered in the 32Red Sprint Cup, which she also won last year, but Ascot is the main target.

"She's in great form," said Burke. "And if we get this soft ground at Ascot in October I'll be happy. We've started riding her out again and she's moving brilliant and looks fantastic. Everything would have to go right for her to make Haydock in September. We'll leave her in there right to the death I'd imagine, but if there are any negatives on the way we'd pull stumps on that, but she looks fantastic."

July Cup winner Harry Angel and Caravaggio, who captured this year's Commonwealth Cup, have emerged as star three-year-old sprinters this term and while Burke is impressed with them, he has not lost faith with his ace filly.

He added: "I think Harry Angel is very good, while Caravaggio may want another furlong and the older horses are still there, but on this ground at her best she's hard to beat."

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