Champion mare Goldikova will stay in training as a five-year-old and will target an historic third victory in the 2010 Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs.

The Freddie Head-trained Anabaa filly completed back-to-back successes in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Santa Anita earlier this month.  No horse has won more than two Breeders’ Cup races since the series was introduced in 1984.

“She has come back from the States in great form and appears to be very well,” Head said from France on Tuesday.  “She has gone down to Haras de Saint-Leonard in Normandy for a holiday.”

Goldikova has won 7 Group 1 events and could challenge the great Miesque’s record of 10 victories at that level.  Head was her regular rider in the majority of those wins in elite company.

After coming off second best to champion filly Zarkava in the 2007 French classics, Goldlikova went from strength to strength with a G1 hat-trick as a three-year-old.  She scored four more times at the top level this year.

“Her lead-up programme is not set in stone but she may well reappear in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot,” Head predicted.  “There is also the option of the Prix d’Ispahan and then we have a similar choice with races like the Falmouth and the Rothschild and Jacques Le Marois at Deauville.”

Olivier Peslier, who has ridden Goldikova in every one of her 15 races, was also pleased with the decision to keep her in training.  “That’s a super decision and also a very sporting one.  I hope she stays in such good form as she had this year.”