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Kitty Rose will head to Deauville on Sunday for the final leg of her European campaign.
The daughter of Invincible Army was acquired privately by Australian trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr for owner Tim Porter before Royal Ascot, where she performed with plenty of credit when finishing fifth of thirty in the Sandringham Stakes, before chasing home Al Musmak in the Listed Sir Henry Cecil Stakes at Newmarket.
Connections now feel the time is right for her to step up to ten furlongs, with the Group 2 Sumbre Prix Alec Head at Deauville on Sunday next on the agenda.
"She's improving every time we ask her to do something, and the form of her races seem to be holding up well, said Roy Storch, travelling head lad to Price and Kent Jnr.
"The horse that she beat for third at Newmarket went out and won at Goodwood and we're happy with how she is going. She's galloping beautifully, she's happy and fit and healthy.
"We thought after the way she finished off her race at Newmarket and was staying on up the hill we would step her up in trip and Oisin (Murphy) was pretty convinced she would get 10 furlongs easily.
"It's a nice flat track at Deauville and I think going round a turn will be better for her too and might keep her focused on what she is doing – she seemed to get a bit lost racing up a straight at Newmarket.
"She's so easy to deal with, she's a dream, and we've been very impressed with her."
Following Deauville, Kitty Rose will enter quarantine in early September to embark on her journey back to Australia, where plenty of big-race targets appear to lie ahead.
Storch added: "I think she is going to fit sweetly in that mile to 2000-metre mark and there are plenty of races for her.
"There is the Empire Rose Stakes which is a nice race at Flemington during the Carnival, and you could go for the Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill in the autumn – all those 10-furlong weight-for-age races.
"She looks like a 2000, filly and the way she is racing at the moment would suggest that too. The way we race back home (in Australia) and sit, and sprint will certainly suit her style as well.
"Sitting in that distance range will suit us well and all the good races with the good prize-money are at that distance."
