Page 30 - The Game September 2006

30 The Game, September 2006 Your Thoroughbred Racing Community Newspaper
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Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien, who won the Canadian International with Ballingarry, hopes to challenge for the race again at the end of October but prior to that will saddle Ad Valorem for the Bell Mile at Woodbine on September 17.
This colt was lightly raced in his first two seasons but stayed in training this year in the hope of winning a couple of top grade races. He had his first run of the season at the Curragh on soft ground but never looked like scoring when obviously
in need of the outing.
That race was in April and
he was not seen in action again until the Royal Ascot meeting when he contested the group 2 Queen Anne
well bounce back to his best but he will have very few decent opportunities in Europe this year as there will be few racing days offering fast ground conditions.
O’Brien will probably make a number of entries for the Canadian International but says that Yeats may well be his representative in the twelve furlong event. This colt was Winter favourite for the Epsom Derby in his year but did not get to perform in the race.
This year he has at last shown his class as he romped to a decisive victory in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot and then took the Goodwood Cup over two miles. He appears to be classy enough to drop back in distance as he possesses a decent turn of
foot but there is a possibility he will be sent instead to Australia.
First he will run at the Curragh in mid September in the Irish St Leger and the final classic appears to be at his mercy. It is run over fourteen furlongs and a decisive victory there would give him every chance at Woodbine.
Connections will have to decide on whether to send him for the Melbourne Cup in advance of his next run as he would have to go into quarantine immediately following the St Leger. The fact that Coolmore have stallions standing in Australia and that last year’s Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva is visiting one of them in the future may influence the decision.
However, Coolmore could also send younger horses such as Septimus, Fire And Rain, Puerto Rico or a couple of others which have already competed at the grade one level. The latter was third in the Great Voltigeur
Sakes at York where he did not seem to stay the fourteen furlongs.
Septimus is expected to go for the English St Leger before a decision on his future is made and of course Irish Derby winner Dylan Thomas, who failed to handle the eased going in the group one Juddmonte International at York, could well be sent to Woodbine if not held over for the Breeders’ Cup meeting.
Ballydoyle did enjoy one major success at the big English meeting two weeks ago when Alexandrova, winner of the Epsom and Irish Oaks, absolutely destroyed the opposition in the Yorkshire Oaks.
In the enforced absence of stable jockey Kieren Fallon Aidan O’Brien booked his former jockey Michael Kinane for the top class filly. He enjoyed an armchair ride and having sat out the back until two furlongs to run he moved up gradually to take on the leaders and the filly eased right away in the finalfurlong.
She has only lost once in her life but will not be pitched in against the boys and is now likely to be held for the Breeders’ Cup Fillies and Mares in which she would probably have to take on England’s star filly Ouija Board.
Meanwhile, Epsom Derby winner Sir Percy has enjoyed a summer break and is now back in action as he prepares for the big autumn races. A number of the colts he defeated in the classic in June have gone on to register grade one successes and as the form is holding up, there is every chance we will hear lots more about this one in the future.
In France Andre Fabre has given his top charge Hurricane Run a break and this classy individual will be brought back slowly with the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe as his main target. He is a short priced favourite for France’s top race which is expected to attract runners from at least four other countries including Ireland, England, Germany and Japan.
Stakes. The race attracted a small but select field and in a good battle Kieren Fallon forced Ad Valorem home in front of Court Masterpiece which went on to win at the big Goodwood meeting.
However, AdValorem was subsequently sent to France to take on the best milers there but heavy rain fell on the morning of the race and the Ballydoyle/Coolmore colt was unable to handle the conditions. If he gets decent ground at Woodbine he could
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