Godolphin's brilliant G1 Champion Stakes winner Ombudsman (Night Of Thunder) will not travel to Keeneland for the GI Breeders' Cup Turf after all, John Gosden announced on Wednesday.Although initially set for the 1 1/2-mile test at Keeneland as late as Monday, the five-year-old entire will instead be given time by connections before a potential tilt at the G1 Japan Cup in November. A dual winner of the G1 Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot, the five-time Group 1 winner was aiming for his first start at 1 1/2 miles.Gosden, who trains with his son Thady, told the Press Association, “It's very simple, the horse ran four days ago at Ascot and he would have to work tomorrow, get on a plane for a cross-Atlantic flight, quarantine and it's not fair to ask him to do that then ask him to run back within 14 days with a long journey in the middle.“In fairness, we felt having discussed it with everyone, we shouldn't be trying to do that with him after he ran such a brilliant race in the Champion Stakes and we could consider the Japan Cup now.“There's plenty of time to that now in November, but to rush him over to America and put him through that we didn't think was in the best interests of the horse.”He added, “Japan would be a tentative plan and no more than that. It's the only other race this year he could really run in and an important international race, so to that extent it's a tentative plan.“After that we're probably talking retirement and it would have been nice to go to America, we wanted to go and do it because we like the Breeders' Cup a lot, but the horse has to come first.”The post Ombudsman To Skip BC, Japan Cup Still A Possibility appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.