Pressday, a Group One winner for premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller, is set to continue his racing career in the United States.
The four-year-old is in training for leading California-based horseman John Sadler after a Sydney spring campaign was cut short because of a bleeding attack.
Pressday, who won the Group One BTC T J Smith Classic at Eagle Farm in 2010, was purchased by leading stud Eliza Park this year.
“Chris suggested the United States was an option and the horse is already over there getting ready to go,” Eliza Park’s Lee Fleming told AAP.
“We expect him to race very well and hopefully we can get some international interest so he can reverse shuttle as a stallion.”
Pressday, who also won the Group Two Sandown Guineas last year, had his career derailed when he bled for the first time in the Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill in early September.
Under Australian rules, Pressday was banned from racing for three months.
In the United States, the son of Domesday will be able to race on Lasix, an anti-bleeding medication.
Fleming said plans to send Pressday to stud next year remain in place.
“As a grandson of Red Ransom we feel he has genuine international appeal and if we can get a reverse shuttle deal it will help secure the horse’s future,” he said.
“He’ll definitely be standing at stud in 2012.”
Fleming said Sadler had enjoyed success with southern hemisphere thoroughbreds.
“John has had good results with horses from Australian and New Zealand,” he said.
Sadler trained New Zealand-bred mare Black Mamba to a Grade One win while Red Arrow, a weight-for-age placegetter in Australia for Anthony Cummings, also made a winning transition to United States racing under his care.
Horses trained by Sadler have earned more than $US70 million and he has won titles at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita and De Mar.
Internationally, Sadler is best known as the trainer of Our New Recruit, winner of the 2004 Golden Shaheen Stakes in Dubai.
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