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Martyn Meade’s Eminent has Irish Champion Stakes or Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe target

Connections have not yet decided where their three-year-old will head after Eminent bounced back to form with an all-the-way win in France last time

CONNECTIONS of Eminent have not yet decided whether they will have a crack at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

Martyn Meade's three-year-old also has the option of the QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes after he bounced back to winning ways in France last time out.

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Eminent got back to winning ways in France on his last startCredit: PA

Freddie Meade, assistant to his father, said: "He's in very good order and it's just which of the options we go for.

"There's the Irish Champion or the Arc. I think the Champion Stakes at Ascot will be too late in the year. We don't want to run him on bad ground.

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"He's ready to go and we'll make a bit of plan in the early part of next week."

Should Eminent line up at Chantilly in early October, he would likely clash with John Gosden's brilliant filly Enable.

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