CONNECTIONS of Sea The Stars will wait at least a fortnight before deciding if racing’s leading light bids for a magnificent seven victories in the Breeders’ Cup Classic.

Sunday’s superb Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner was back at trainer John Oxx’s stables in Currabeg after landing his sixth straight Group One victory at Longchamp on Sunday.

Oxx, who described Sea the Stars as ‘the Usain Bolt of the equine world’, is toying with the idea of the Cape Cross colt adding to his impressive haul in America next month. Although he is waiting to see how his super star is in the next few weeks before making any decision.

The Irish trainer said: “The horse is fine, he came home a little later than expected but he ate up all his feed and although he is a little tired from the journey, he is otherwise fine.

“A rider will sit up on him tomorrow and we will canter him on Wednesday.

“The Breeders’ Cup was an option as a fall-back in case the ground went wrong at Longchamp. My gut instinct is that after the hard season the horse has had, with six races in six months, America is probably a step too far but we haven’t ruled it out. He’s an exceptional horse and he was fresher yesterday than at any point in the season. While he has gone in his coat a bit, there is still plenty of racing in him.

“It’s two weeks before we have to make an entry for him and a decision will be made around that time.

“The Breeders’ Cup was originally only a fall-back in case the ground came up soft in France, but I would have no fears about the surface there.

“He has plenty of Polytrack experience on the Curragh and I think he would love the surface and bounce off it.”

Sea The Stars is already being hailed as one of the greatest racehorses ever and his victories in the 2,000 Guineas, Derby, Eclipse, Juddmonte International, Irish Champion and the Arc put him in a league of his own.

No other horse has a similar haul of success and Oxx added: “Mill Reef and Dancing Brave were the closest to mirror his record, but both got beaten in one race. At the end of the day, nobody can know which horse is best.

“After 300 years of selective breeding of thoroughbreds, he is the ultimate that can be produced by a breeder. He’s got a great pedigree, temperament and looks.

“As a physical specimen, he is the Usain Bolt of the equine world – you couldn’t hope to breed a better horse.

“It is temperament that separates the good horses from the great horses.”

Sea The Stars’ official rating of 135 has been left unchanged for now. But Oxx said: “Mick (Kinane) said that the horse’s best performance was at Leopardstown but he thought he was even better yesterday.

“He can only be rated on what he beat on the day. The pace was very in and out and the pacemakers were meaningless. If the race had been run at a frantic pace, which it often is in the Arc, the distances would have been greater.

“The even pace that we got at York and Leopardstown wasn’t there yesterday. In any case, the horse never wins his races by very far.”

The British Horseracing Authority’s head of handicapping Liverpool-born Phil Smith only gave him a figure of 131 for his latest performance when winning the Arc which is 10lb below that achieved by Dancing Brave in landing Europe’s middle distance championship contest in 1986.

Smith said: “In terms of the rating, we’ve left him on 135 which was the mark we had him performing to in the Irish Champion Stakes.

“We looked at the Arc and we have two pretty solid yardsticks in there in Youmzain and Conduit and we have them both performing to 125.

“So we’ve gone through them and we have said the winning distance was worth 6lb so we’ve given Sea The Stars a performance figure of 131.

“That is all he needed to do to win the race and I suspect if something had come out of the pack and challenged him, he’d have gone further away.”

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