Owner Kirsten Rausing is “pondering” the pros and cons of a Japan Cup farewell for Arc victor Alpinista.
The five-year-old claimed an eighth successive win, of which six have been at Group One level, when holding off Vadeni by half a length in the ParisLongchamp highlight at the beginning of October.
Should Rausing and trainer Sir Mark Prescott decide to have one last roll of the dice in Tokyo on November 27, they could bag a bonus of $3m if the popular grey comes home in front again.
However, while Rausing feels her star mare will take some topping in Japan, the lengthy journey and a reluctance to “ask her any more” is tempering enthusiasm.
She said: “If she were to go there, by the looks of it she wins it – she’s higher rated than anything else there. She is 10lb higher rated than any European that has gone there in the last so many years, but then again no European has won there for quite a while.
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