Although this might not please you, mmsc......... it's really good news to me (and the horse). It doesn't look like America is on the cards for Reverence anymore.
From RP......
by David Carr
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LAST year's Betfred Sprint Cup winner Reverence, denied the chance to bid for a repeat victory after breaking a blood vessel in the Nunthorpe Stakes, was on Monday announced back on course for a tilt at next month's Prix de l'Abbaye.
Tests carried out on the gelding since he trailed in last of 16 behind Kingsgate Native at York have shown no cause for the bleeding so he is being aimed at the Longchamp sprint, in which he finished a neck second to Desert Lord last season.
“He just bled,” said trainer Eric Alston. “There was no virus, no infection or anything like that.
“I am not sure if that is good or bad really - it would probably have been better if they had found something but now there is no explanation for it.
“He had never shown any sign of it before and we hope it is just a one-off - horses do sometimes have a one-off.
“He was in great order before York and he has been great since. It doesn't seem to have bothered him. He is only doing light work at the moment, mind, but we will step him up in ten days and we hope we can get him to Paris.”
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