Trainer Freddie Head confirmed September 14 that last season’s TVG Breeders’ Cup Mile winner Goldikova, one of the best fillies to race in Europe in recent years, is on course for the $2 million contest again this year (at Santa Anita on November 7) and will have her prep run over seven furlongs in the Group One Prix de la Foret at Longchamp on Saturday, October 3.

The four-year-old put in an outstanding performance to beat subsequent Group One winner Aqlaam by six lengths in the Group One Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques Le Marois at Deauville on August 16, her sixth success in Group or Grade One company.

Goldikova holds entries in the Group One Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on September 26 and the Group One Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday, October 3, but Head has decided to keep the filly at home for her next start.

“Goldikova will be running in the Prix de la Foret at Longchamp and then, providing she runs well, she will be heading to Santa Anita,” said Head.

“She is very well at the moment and I am very pleased with her. We decided that the best way to target her at the Breeders’ Cup would be to run her at Longchamp rather than going to Newmarket or Ascot.

“She could still return to Britain next season if all goes well on her next two starts.”

Meanwhile, connections of Europe’s best colt of recent years — the brilliant five-time Group One winner Sea The Stars — confirmed today that they are considering sending the three-year-old to Santa Anita for the Grade One Breeders’ Cup Classic on November 7.

The Cape Cross colt has won this season’s stanjames.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, the Investec Derby at Epsom, the Coral-Eclipse at Sandown, the Juddmonte International at York= 0and most recently the Tattersalls Millions Champion Stakes at Loepardstown.

Oxx has nominated the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on October 4 as Sea The Stars’s probable next target but, should the ground be too soft, a trip to the Breeders’ Cup is now a distinct possibility.

“If we miss the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, then we will obviously have to look at the two races that are left for him – the Champion Stakes at Newmarket or Santa Anita, where it would probably be the Breeders’ Cup Classic rather than the Breeders’ Cup Turf,” Oxx told television channel At The Races.

“The horse tells you what you are going to do, he has to be in good form and give us the right signals. It’s very late in the year for a horse that has had a run in the 2000 Guineas but if he missed the Arc, then we would have to consider going to America.

“There hasn’t been any final decision but it’s highly unlikely that he will be in training next season. We haven’t actually got as far as discussing it and we are just taking one race at a time. We are enjoying it while it is going on and that will be a decision for another day, probably in a month’s time.”