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Ralph Beckett remains optimistic that Revoir can take the step up to Group 1 level when she’s pitched into the Epsom Oaks on Friday afternoon.
A facile winner at Nottingham on debut, Revoir returned to the track this season with an agonising second-place finish behind the reopposing Qilin Queen in Listed company at Newbury.
However, it was a performance that left Beckett believing there would be plenty more to come from the daughter of Study Of Man, who will carry the same colours of owner-breeder Julian Richmond-Watson that Look Here sported when landing the prize seventeen years ago.
"I think she should come forward for the run at Newbury," said Ralph Beckett, who will be bidding for a third Oaks success following Talent's victory in 2013. "I felt it was a good starting point, but she was still pretty green through the race. I liked the way she went through the line."
Despite liking the way Revoir hit the line on her reappearance, Beckett remains wary of her stepping up to a mile and a half for the first time.
He said: "You would think the step up in trip will probably be in her favour. There are stamina influences on her page, but I have slight reservations in the fact that Regardez (her dam) didn't stay a mile and a half, she got a mile and a quarter well.
"This filly is a slightly different character and is more laid-back than her mother was, but we are taking it on trust.
"Look Here winning the Oaks when we were at Whitsbury is a big part of what is going on here now. It's been 17 years, and it's been a big joy to train the family – it's been a privilege.
"Julian and Sarah (Richmond-Watson) are exceptional breeders, they've never had more than six broodmares and to come up with not just Look Here but Remarquee, Scope and Kinross in the space of 15 years from six mares is extraordinary. Hopefully this filly is the next cab off the rank."
Whilst Revoir will be making her first appearance in Group 1 company, You Got To Me will head to Epsom for her first start since finishing last of seven in the St Leger Stakes at Doncaster in September.
Last year's Irish Oaks heroine will now don the silks of Amo Racing, who went to a whopping 4,800,000gns to secure the daughter of Nathaniel at the December Mares Sale.
On what he expects taking on the likes of Calandagan and last season's St Leger Stakes conqueror Jan Brueghel at Epsom, Beckett said: "This looked a good starting place for her. It looks a deep renewal, and she'll have to go a bit, but she's been away for gallops a couple of times this spring and they've gone well, so I couldn't be happier.
"She's been off since the St Leger so that is nine months. Inevitably she'll need the match practice, but this leads us into the year.
"I had intended to start her in the Lancashire Oak, so this is a month earlier than we imagined, which is a good sign."
Beckett added: "I'd like to get her in against her own sex at some point. The Yorkshire Oaks is the obvious one but France Galop, in their wisdom, moved the Prix Vermeille so there is only 17 days between the only two fillies' only Group 1's over a mile and a half in Europe, which makes life somewhat complicated. Those two races are high on her agenda."
