Champions Day target for Owen Burrows’ Massaat with the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on the agenda

TRAINER Owen Burrows is looking forward to the rest of the year with recent Newbury winner Massaat.

Massaat made his return from a 373-day absence to win the Hungerford Stakes and he now has the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on Champions Day as his target.

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Burrows said: "He's well and has come out of Newbury fine.

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"He's in the Moulin. That's on September 10. We'll see. He's in the Foret three weeks later and it's the QEII three weeks after that.

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"It will be one of the French races he'll go for, then the QEII."