Prix Jean Prat winner Laws Of Indices sold to continue career in Australia

Group 1-winning three-year-old Laws Of Indices will continue his career in Australia after a deal was struck for 50 per cent of the Prix Jean Prat hero to be sold ahead of his tilt at the A$7.5 million Golden Eagle.

A 66-1 winner of the Group 2 Railway Stakes at two, the son of Power had been an admirable flagbearer for Ken Condon but is now set to join trainer Annabel Neasham, who has been enjoying a tremendous run of late with the former Sir Michael Stoute-trained Zaaki.

Laws Of Indices carried the colours of Charlotte Holmes to victory on three occasions having been picked up for just €8,000 as a yearling.

Ken Condon on Laws Of Indices: 'He's very sound and I'm sure the owners are looking forward to the next part of the journey.'Credit: Patrick McCann (racingpost.com/photos)

"He's been a super horse for us," Condon said. "His existing owners have retained a 50 per cent share, while an Australian entity bought the other 50 per cent of the colt. He'll be transferred to Annabel Neasham and he arrived with our lads at Newmarket on Thursday night."

"He'll do his two weeks in Newmarket and then two weeks in Canterbury, which we're familiar with from our travels before with Success Days. It's a very good facility with good people there on the veterinary and quarantine side."

Connections had already been planning an ambitious Golden Eagle bid on October 30 before the deal was completed, eyeing up the same 7½f event that Mother Earth had initially been targeted at before her switch to the Breeders' Cup.

Laws Of Indices: edged out Lucky Vega when landing the GAIN Railway Stakes last seasonCredit: Patrick McCann

"He's very sound and I'm sure the owners are looking forward to the next part of the journey," Condon added. "It's a huge race with big prize-money and he looks to have good credentials heading into it.

"Our job is to get him there in the best place we can and we wish his new connections the best of luck for the future. Laws Of Indices is a rock-solid horse who seemed to be very much ground-versatile and the Group 1 win in France was the pinnacle.

"Everything fell into place for him then in his ideal conditions and he got a tremendously well-judged ride from Olivier Peslier. He beat a competitive field and I'm sure he'll have a very good future."

Rated 114, last season's Phoenix Stakes fourth and Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere third was bred by Horse Racing Ireland chairman Nicky Hartery and finished his European career when eighth in the Prix Maurice de Gheest at Deauville in August.

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