Hugo Palmer could send his classy two-year-old filly Fitzella to France for a crack at Deauville’s Prix du Calvados on August 24th.

Having got off the mark in impressive style at Haydock, Fitzella Fitzella proved she was more than capable of mixing it with the best two-year-old fillies' in Europe when a promising fourth behind Karl Burke's unbeaten Venetian Sun in the Albany Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Returned to the Berkshire venue just over a month later, Hugo Palmer's daughter of Too Darn Hot returned to winning ways with a dominant front-running success over the George Scott-trained Staya in the Princess Margaret Stakes.

With the Breeders' Cup firmly on the agenda as a possible end of season target, Palmer is keen to make sure her next start is the right one.

"It's hard to know but at the moment I'm thinking of the Prix du Calvados in Deauville," said Palmer on Nick Luck's daily podcast.

"I'd just be nervous about the ground. It's very difficult to gauge the ground in France because they have a different system for calling it and it's just on a slightly different scale.

"To travel over there and find out that it's soft ground would be nerve-wracking but that's the race I'd like to go.

"It's a valuable Group 2 and then we can think from there. She's in the Moyglare, which is a nice gap. I won't be putting her in the Fillies' Mile, but I will probably put her in the Cheveley Park.

"I'd like to think she'd get a mile next year and like to think we can dream about having a Guineas filly.

"We have the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies & Mares, which is obviously a mile, but a very sharp and flat mile at Del Mar. We have that on our list of possibles.

"She'll probably only have two more starts this year and ideally we'd like to achieve enough that she can start off in the Guineas next year and not have to trial."