Ouija Board back working

RACING: Ouija Board will be reunited with jockey Jamie Spencer in a spin on the Newmarket gallops this morning.

Spencer last sat on the Cape Cross filly when she finished seventh of eight runners behind Azamour in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot at York.

It was later discovered Ouija Board had suffered a small stress fracture to her near-fore cannonbone but the multiple Group One-winner has recovered from that injury.

Trainer Ed Dunlop is targeting the Group Three September Stakes at Newmarket on September 3rd for the four-year-old's comeback.

He told www.edunlop.com: "She is back in full exercise. She has done three pieces of work and tomorrow will be reunited with Jamie Spencer. She will just do a routine piece of work.

"She is moving well and her action appears to be good. All in all, we are encouraged by the way she is at the moment, physically. Mentally, she is as laid-back as ever, which is a good sign. She seems very well.

"We are considering taking her for a racecourse gallop with a lead horse next week.

"If the ground remains very firm we will consider going to Lingfield on the all-weather. But we will take everything one step at a time and see how she goes tomorrow.

"She remains on course for the September Stakes. That will be an important stepping-stone back for her."

Meanwhile, Mubtaker will definitely bid for a fourth successive victory in Saturday's Stan James Geoffrey Freer Stakes at Newbury after pleasing connections in a gallop yesterday morning.

Trainer Marcus Tregoning had been in two minds about running the eight-year-old in the Group Two contest at the Berkshire course as he is also entered in a conditions event at Newmarket on Friday. But the Silver Hawk entire has convinced the trainer he is capable of further glory in the race.

Soviet Song is likely to have two runs in the autumn before heading to New York for the Breeders' Cup Mile at Belmont Park.

James Fanshawe's five-year-old mare looks set to run in the Matron Stakes at Leopardstown on September 10th, before taking in the Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket three weeks later.

Plans for Flashy Wings are under discussion after the filly delighted her trainer, Mick Channon, in a gallop at West Ilsley yesterday morning.

The Queen Mary Stakes winner came through her first serious workout following a mid-season break with flying colours as she quickened past three stable-mates. Channon is set to run the daughter of Zafonic in the Sky Bet Cheveley Park Stakes at Newmarket on September 29th but he might opt to give her one more outing beforehand.

Salisbury's two-day midsummer meeting kicks off today and the feature race sees a cracking opportunity for Oaks runner-up Something Exciting.

David Elsworth's charge is the star turn in the EBF Upavon Fillies' Stakes and she has done precious little wrong since winning the Lupe Stakes on her first start of the season back in May.

Fashionable could be the main danger, but there is nothing in the field with form to match Something Exciting on what is a significant drop in class for the Elsworth filly.

Richard Hannon's one-time smart juvenile Screwdriver merits some serious consideration now that he has been dropped in the weights for the Pembroke Cup.