Regime Geared Towards Trophy

Connections of Goffs Million runner-up Regime have their sights set on another major pot, the Racing Post Trophy at Newbury on October 21.

The Highclere Thoroughbred-owned juvenile ran a storming race in the richest ever two-year-old event run in Europe when he chased home Group One winner Miss Beatrix at the Curragh on Tuesday.

Michael Bell's charge may even have finished closer but for being drawn on the wrong side and the son of Golan will now be aimed at the contest won by the likes of High Chaparral and Motivator in recent years.

'We were thrilled to bits with the horse, he has shown significant improvement on the gallops and it's lovely to see him do it in a big race,' said Highclere's Harry Herbert.

'I think we are going to have a close look at the Racing Post Trophy.

'We need to see how he comes out of his run first, that was a hard race on testing ground.

'He's a horse that handles easy ground very well though, he stays very well and he's a mature horse that's improving. It would be silly to look much beyond that at this stage.

'Jamie (Spencer) said after the race that it was Group One form and those are the races we should be looking at.

'I think if we'd raced on the far side ? I'm not saying we would have won ? but we would have been a hell of lot closer.

'When he hits the front in his home work he gets quite lazy and he was four or five lengths clear on the stands side with nothing to race with.

'We were delighted with him. The original plan was to have a crack at the Million and it very nearly paid off.

'Regime looks like he'll make a lovely three-year-old, he'll get a mile and a half next year and is a horse to really look forward to and who knows, he might turn into a Derby prospect.'

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