Forever Young's next start could be at Royal Ascot in June

Older dirt male champion Forever Young is an early entry for the Group 1 Prince of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot on June 17.

Although Forever Young has won 11 of his 15 starts on dirt for trainer Yoshito Yahagi, the 5-year-old son of Real Steel has turf winners on both sides of his pedigree.

Shin Emperor is another Prince Of Wales’s Stakes entry for Forever Young’s owner Susumu Fujita, and Yahagi entered American Stage for the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.

Yahagi said: “I have been thinking, and saying in public, that I should send Forever Young to a turf race in the future. His owner Susumu Fujita shares this feeling, and the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes is one of the turf race options I should consider.

“It is very prestigious for a trainer to have a runner at Royal Ascot, while I think it is very attractive idea to send Forever Young for the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes, although he has had an easy time since he returned from Middle East."

Forever Young, winner of the 2025 Breeders' Cup Classic and two consecutive Saudi Cups (G1), could face Daryz, trained by Francis-Henri Graffard, and Ombudsman, trained by John and Thady Gosden, in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes.