THE ‘very special’ Lowther winner Royal Fixation has been removed from the yard of Ed Walker.
The Group 2-winning filly – who is 25-1 for the 2,000 Guineas – will arrive at Karl Burke’s Spigot Lodge in the coming weeks.
Royal Fixation was good on debut at Thirsk last June and then chased down Burke’s Group 1 winner Venetian Sun in the Duchess Of Cambridge Stakes at Newmarket’s July course.
She showed that form was no fluke with her length Lowther win at York in August.
And she went down just under two lengths to Aidan O’Brien’s True Love in a hot Group 1 Cheveley Park Stakes when last seen in September.
The Palace Pier filly was previously owned by Opulence Thorougbreds having been bought for around £180,000.
But she has been snapped up privately by Yulong Investment, which is owned by Chinese billionaire Yuesheng Zhang.
And she’ll now race under Burke, whose winnings are at almost £4million in Great Britain alone this season.
Burke, who scooped £480,000 just last month with Royal Champion’s victory in the Bahrain Trophy, said: “Yulong have bought her and she’s a fantastic filly to be joining the team.
“She’s not with us yet but I understand she’ll be coming up in the next few weeks.
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“We have a huge team of very nice horses here for next year and she’s now one of them, so you can only be looking forward to it.”
After her runner-up finish to subsequent Prix Morny winner Venetian Sun, Walker said: “I’m very proud of her. When you come into this on the back of winning a Thirsk maiden you don’t really know how good you are, but Royal Fixation is very good.
“It would have been disappointing had she run badly as we rate her very highly among our two-year-olds.
“To run that filly as close as we did is pretty exciting, as I think the winner is a very special filly.”
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