Former Australian star Haradasun is on target to make his debut for champion Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien in the coming months.
The dual Group 1 winner, which had his last start in Australia in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington last spring, will run in either the Group 1 Lockinge Stakes (1600m) at Newbury on 17 May or the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot in June.
Interestingly Haradasun’s champion older brother Elvstroem, finished fourth in the 2005 Lockinge Stakes behind star galloper Rakti.
O’Brien told the UK’s premier racing publication, Racing Post, he thinks Haradasun could be a bit special.
“He is naturally very quick and is quite fit,” O’Brien said.
“It is possible he could go for the Lockinge Stakes, although I would say it is more likely we’ll wait and start him off in the Queen Anne at Royal Ascot.”
Haradasun won last years Group 1 George Ryder Stakes and Doncaster Handicap in Sydney before being placed in the Tatts Cox Plate last October.
