Andrew Balding's QIPCO 2000 Guineas winner Kameko looks set to be an intended runner in the Group One Sussex Stakes at the Qatar Goodwood Festival.
It was widely expected the son of Kitten's Joy would be prepared for York's 10-furlong Juddmonte International after failing to see out the trip in the Investec Derby earlier this month, but connections have decided the most likely option now is to drop the Epsom fourth right back to a mile.
Kameko is already a dual Group One winner at the one mile trip, having also won the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Newcastle as a two-year-old last season.
David Redvers, representing the horse's owners Qatar Racing, said on the Nick Luck Daily Podcast: "There's been lively in-house debate and Sheikh Fahad is keen to go with Andrew's preferred option, which at the moment looks like it will be the Sussex.
"We need to have a meeting of the two Guineas winners to see which is the better and it looks to me like the Sussex is where we are leaning at the moment.
"It depends on other factors, such as weather and how the horse is, but at the moment it looks like that is where we are heading.
"Going to the Sussex gives you more time if you wanted to go to the Juddmonte, which has been Andrew's target all along.
"He bounced out of the Derby very well and will have had quite a lot of quick runs if he does go to the Juddmonte, but a bit like Roaring Lion, Kitten's Joy seems to make them out of tough stuff.
"If we'd gone to the Jacques le Marois it would have been a choice between that and the Juddmonte. This gives Andrew the option of doing both."
Irish Guineas winner Siskin lies in wait for Kameko, should he be declared, with recent Summer Mile scorer Mohaather and Queen Anne Stakes victory Circus Maximus other top horses in line for the feature race of the meeting.
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