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Massaat set to drop in trip

Massaat (blue & white) finishing second at NewmarketMassaat (blue & white) finishing second at Newmarket
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Owen Burrows is considering potential options to step down in trip with the 2000 Guineas runner-up Massaat.

After failing to see out a mile and a half in the Derby, the son of Teofilo is to be brought back to a mile and a quarter on his next start.

Although plans are yet to be finalised as to where the three-year-old will next be seen in action, the Lambourn handler has outlined both the Group Two York Stakes at York or the Group Three Rose of Lancaster Stakes at Haydock as possible destinations.

He said: "Massaat is fine. He is just cantering away at the moment. We will look for something for him in the later part of July or early August.

"We will try him over 10 furlongs and go from there as it didn't work out for him in the Derby.

"We have not really pencilled anything in, but there is the York Stakes and the Rose of Lancaster at Haydock. These are just a couple of races and we will look at them."