Summer Mile winner Beat The Bank to have second crack at QEII Stakes on Champions Day

CLASSY miler Beat The Bank is on track for a second tilt at the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day.

Trainer Andrew Balding is confident the Group 2 winner can improve on his tenth place in last year's renewal.

However, he'll need to recover from a dirty scope that ruled him out of the Joel Stakes last week.

The son of Paco Boy had been an intended runner on the Rowley Mile but will now head to Ascot in search for a more valuable prize.

Balding said: "He had a dirty scope, so that is why we decided not to run him in the Joel Stakes (at Newmarket), otherwise he would have been an intended runner.

"Everything else has been OK and the plan now is to go straight to the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes on Champions Day."

Another miler with a big race agenda is the improving three-year-old Wadilsafa.

Owen Burrows' son of Frankel has progressed with every start this season and recently landed the Listed Fortune Stakes at Sandown in good style.

A trip to Longchamp for Arc weekend is now on the cards for Hamdan Al Maktoum's exciting prospect.

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Burrows said: "He is entered in the Prix Daniel Wildenstein on Arc weekend. I will have a chat with the boss (Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum) and see what he wants to do.

"I've always felt he would be a better four-year-old, so that might be him finished for the season.

"The ground is going to start to go soon for him as he likes fast ground, but he is fine on good ground.

"It might be nice to go to a Group Three and go from there. From a Listed race to a Group Two could be a bit too much of a jump."