Royal Fixation to join Karl Burke

Ace Stud has purchased Lowther Stakes scorer Royal Fixation, with the filly now set to join Karl Burke’s academy of talent in Middleham.

Royal Fixation was never outside the top three during an excellent juvenile campaign for Ed Walker and former owners Opulence Thoroughbreds, with her Group Two win at York sandwiched by a neck defeat by Burke’s Prix Morny heroine Venetian Sun in the Duchess of Cambridge Stakes and a highly-respectable third behind Aidan O’Brien’s True Love in the Cheveley Park Stakes.

She will now head to Spigot Lodge to be put through her paces by Burke ahead of the spring, with her Newmarket-based owners hoping she will develop into a Classic contender next term.

Ace Stud’s bloodstock and racing manager, Paul Curran, said: “We bought her a couple of months ago and she’s heading to Karl. She’s a good filly and hopefully one who can be lucky for us.

“We’ll take a good look at her and see what she can do, but she was very competitive last season and was beaten by a good filly of Karl’s who went on to win a Group One, so I think we could try to aim at around a mile.

“We could have Guineas ambitions but we haven’t made a definitive decision on where we go – it’s a possibility obviously and she could be one to go for something like that.

“If not I’m sure we’ll do plenty of campaigning with her in and around six and seven furlongs. She looks an exciting filly for sure.”