Champagne d’Oro will be retired in January and will have one or two more races before she is sent to Kentucky to be bred to Bernardini, trainer Eric Guillot said Monday.

She will start in Monday’s $100,000 Monrovia Stakes over about 6 1/2 furlongs on the hillside turf course, which could lead to a start in the $300,000 Santa Monica Stakes over seven furlongs on the main track on Jan. 28.

“If she runs big, I’ll run her back in the Santa Monica,” Guillot said. “If she doesn’t run good, she’ll go to the shed. I’ve got a contract with Bernardini.”

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. − There are parents who mark every summer at Saratoga by taking pictures of their kids, an annual record of their growth spurts. Same time, next year. The connections of Champagne d’Oro are hoping their annual trip to Saratoga results in another memorable photo, in the winner’s circle.

On Sunday, when Champagne d’Oro goes to the post in the Grade 2, $150,000 Honorable Miss Handicap at Saratoga, it will mark exactly one year since her powerful victory in the Grade 1 Test Stakes.

It will also mark one year since her last win.

MIAMI – If you want to talk to a trainer who speaks his mind, Eric Guillot is your man. If you want to bet on a trainer who knows a thing or two about shipping a horse into a tropical climate like south Florida during the dead of summer for a stakes race, once again Guillot is your guy.

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Champagne d’Oro, the fourth-place finisher in the Grade 2 El Encino Stakes last Sunday, will be given three months’ rest after suffering a bout with colic after that race that required a brief hospitalization, trainer Eric Guillot said.

Champagne d’Oro was sent to a local clinic on Sunday and returned to Guillot’s stable on Wednesday. The trainer said the 4-year-old Champagne d’Oro will return to training in May.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Champagne d’Oro’s career has been defined by two Grade 1 wins around one-turn in New York last year – the one-mile Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park in June and the seven-furlong Test Stakes at Saratoga in August.

Trainer Eric Guillot has different goals for 2011 – winning major stakes around two turns. The first opportunity, and a difficult one, will be Sunday’s $150,000 El Encino Stakes over 1 1/16 miles for 4-year-old fillies at Santa Anita.

The distance and the age restriction suit Champagne d’Oro.

Trainer Eric Guillot and Southern Equine Stable LLC had clearly defined goals for Champagne d’Oro from the beginning. Through 14 career starts she has never run in an allowance race, or in any type of claiming race. She raced against stakes company in the Cinderella and Landaluce last year as a 2-year-old in her second and third starts, when she was a maiden.

ARCADIA, Calif. – Wet weather kept Santa Anita’s main track closed for training Saturday and prevented Champagne d’Oro from a workout in advance of the $250,000 La Brea Stakes for 3-year-old fillies on opening day of the meet, Dec. 26.

Initially, trainer Eric Guillot was frustrated at the disruption, but after thinking through the situation, he decided that Champagne d’Oro may not need that much exercise to be ready for the Grade 1 race over seven furlongs.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Eric Guillot has consolidated a 20-horse stable at Churchill Downs, marking the first time the Louisiana-born trainer will have a sizable contingent of runners to compete on the Kentucky circuit.

Guillot, who had raced primarily in Southern California since 2006 before leaving earlier this year to move back east, has one of the top contenders for the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint in Champagne d’Oro, the standout 3-year-old filly who won the Grade 1 Acorn and Grade 1 Test in New York this year.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. – The multiple Grade 1-winning 3-year-old filly Champagne d’Oro will make her next start in the Grade 3, $400,000 Presque Isle Downs Masters Stakes on Sept. 11, trainer Eric Guillot said Saturday.

The Masters, run at 6 1/2 furlongs, will be her final prep for the $1  million Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint at Churchill Downs on Nov. 5.