Dubai: Long-serving Godolphin handler Saeed Bin Surour has the UAE Classics on his mind after watching Promising Run run out a decisive winner of the Group 2 Shadwell Rockfel Stakes on the second day of Newmarket’s Cambridgeshire Meeting on Friday.

Having caught the eye when smartly winning her maiden at this track four weeks ago, the Hard Spun filly once again impressed her handler with a 1 3/4 beating of Sir Michael Stoute’s Thetis in the seven furlong contest.

The Rockfel is a useful pointer to the following season’s English 1,000 Guineas, but Bin Surour was thinking of the UAE equivalent and the UAE Oaks.

“We like her a lot and I think the mile will be better for her in the future,” he told Racing UK.

“I think the mile will be better for her early in the season in May, but I think in time she could go a mile and a quarter.

“She is entered in the Fillies’ Mile but that is in two weeks. We will talk to His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai and decide if we take her to Dubai or keep her here. If she goes to Dubai she would go for the UAE Guineas and Oaks.”

Bin Surour has won the last two runnings of the Guineas at Meydan with Local Time and Ihtimal.

Promising Run is a shortening 25/1 for the 2016 English 1,000 Guineas, a race that Bin Surour has not win since Kazzia triumphed in 2002.

The market is lead by the Aidan O’Brien-trained pair of Ballydoyle (8/1) and Minding (12/1), who were second and first in the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at theC urragh earlier this month.

Godolphin pilot James Doyle was also impressed with the attitude Promising Run displayed in what was only her third visit to the racecourse.

“She’s got plenty of ability. She ran a nice race at Goodwood over six and stepped up on that the next day,” he said.

“We were quite hopeful. She felt quite nice when she broke her maiden and we know she stays quite well.

“She’s a strong galloper and has got a good a staying pedigree.”

Meanwhile, Ryan Moore did not waste any time in opening his account after being sideline for two months due to injury, when he partnered Time Test to land the Group 2 Shadwell Joel Stakes.

Roger Charlton’s colt scored by a length from the David O’Meara-trained Custom Cut, who was denied back-to-back wins in the mile contest,

“I’m very lucky to come back from injury and ride horses like this,” said the three-time champion jockey who suffered a neck injury in July.2

Charlton was looking to take the winner aboard for his next challenge.

“He’s obviously got speed and class to run over a mile and Ryan said he would be better on faster ground. He could go to the Breeders’ Cup Mile or Hong Kong or maybe nowhere,” he said.

The Dubawi colt also holds entries in the Group 1 Champion Stakes and Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on October 17.