Trainer Aidan O’Brien has informed that things go as planned for the much-anticipated return of the winner of the 2000 Guineas and Queen Elizabeth II Stakes in 2006, George Washington. The colt is expected to come back to the tracks for the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 19th.

The son of Danehill was retired to stud by the end of 2006, to start his career as a thoroughbred stud. However, high hopes for his future offspring were let down when he was diagnosed with fertility problems and plans had to be changed. Coolmore decided to retire Holy Roman Emperor and send George Washington back to O’Brien.

“George is in good form and everything is going to plan so far,” trainer O’Brien explained. “Hopefully, things will stay that way between now and Ascot. We've entered him for the Sussex Stakes, but that is some way down the line and the plan, if all continues to go well with him, is to start him off in the Queen Anne.”

So far, George Washington has won six of the ten races in which he has competed and finished sixth in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs.