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02:54 Friday 10th February 2012

Updated: 3rd September 2010

Fact-finding mission for Awzaan team

PA News

Awzaan will try to get his career back on track when he makes a fairly low-key return in a Listed race at Haydock on Saturday.

Last season's Middle Park winner has not been seen since tamely losing his 100% record on his seasonal reappearance in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 1. However, he is reported to be ready to do himself justice in the Betfred 'Goals Galore' Superior Mile at the Merseyside venue after a spell on the sidelines.

"He's had a long lay-off. Obviously he ran no sort of race in the Guineas," said Angus Gold, racing manager to owner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum.

"He wasn't great when he got back and then they found he had tweaked a suspensory, so he's had plenty of time off for it to settle down. He's been back in work quite a while now and Mark (Johnston, trainer) feels this is the right place to start him back.

"We don't know what his trip is yet. The only time we've run him over a mile he ran no sort of a race, so we didn't learn anything. All his previous form was over six furlongs.

"It's a learning curve. I know it's a bit late in the year for that, but that was nobody's fault. We'll just see what happens and it will tell us where we go from here."