Ward expects big run from Lady

Views from connections ahead of Sunday’s Prix Morny at Deauville, featuring Royal Ascot winner Lady Aurelia.

Trainer Wesley Ward is confident Lady Aurelia can maintain her unbeaten record in Sunday’s Prix Morny at Deauville.

Having bolted up on her only start in her homeland, the daughter of Scat Daddy was a hot favourite to provide her ebullient handler with another winner at Royal Ascot in June and did so in scintillating fashion, annihilating her Queen Mary rivals by upwards of seven lengths.

Lady Aurelia arrived in France last weekend, with Ward making the journey a few days later, and he could not be happier with how his star filly has settled into her new surroundings.

He said: “Lady Aurelia hasn’t missed a day since Ascot and since we upped her schedule, every bit of work she’s done has been better than the last.

“I was delighted to see how well she was doing after I arrived in France during the week. She went on the grass on Thursday and she seemed to take to it really well.

“I think there’s some showers forecast, but I don’t expect the ground to be as soft as it was at Ascot.

“I’ve looked the field over and it looks to be a competitive race, which is what you’d expect.

“But our filly is doing really great – I don’t think she could be doing better – and I’m confident we’ve got a really big chance.”

Some have suggested that the subsequent two months since Ascot will have helped the European-based two-year-olds, who are traditionally trained less aggressively in the …

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