Jet Setting camp hoping heavens open for Ascot bid

Jet Setting and Shane Foley after winning the Coolmore Stud Home Of Champions Concorde Stakes (Group 3) Tipperary Photo: Patrick McCann 02.10.2016

Jet Setting: supplemented for the Qipco Queen Elizabeth II StakesCredit: Patrick McCann

It has been an unusually dry build-up to Champions Day but that has not deterred the owners of mud-loving Jet Setting from adding her to the Qipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes field at a cost of £70,000.

Trainer Adrian Keatley and owners the China Horse Club, which in June paid £1.3 million for the Irish 1,000 Guineas winner, will be hoping the rain arrives in sufficient quantity to make the move look a shrewd one.

Success in Tipperary’s Group 3 Concorde Stakes nine days ago was not just a return to form but underlined Jet Setting's prowess when the going is testing, the conditions that prevailed when she beat Minding in the Curragh Classic in May.

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Mark StoreyNews editor

Published on 10 October 2016inNews

Last updated 17:59, 10 October 2016

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