The flashing winner of the 2010 Maktoum Challenge – R3 (G2), Red Desire will be aimed for two starts in the United States this fall. Trainer Mikio Matsunaga will send his daughter of the sneaky sire Manhattan Cafe to New York’s Belmont Park for a prep race in the Flower Bowl Invitational (G1) over 10 furlongs on grass, then onward to the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf (G1) at Churchill Downs. This year, the configuration of Churchill requires the race to be run at 11 furlongs.
Red Desire defeated eventual Dubai World Cup (G1) winner Gloria De Campeao with a sizzling run from last in her Maktoum Challenge win before not finding the same spark in the Dubai World Cup itself. Back in Japan, she bled following a return to the races against her archnemesis, Buena Vista. Earlier in the week, Japan’s top dirt horse Espoir City was announced to be pointing for the Breeders’ Cup Classic (G1). Japan has never tasted success at the Breeders’ Cup. Click HERE for more.