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Welcome Back Luxembourg

News — Fri, 12 Aug 2022 22:20:54 +0000

With the shockwaves from the news that Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}) would miss the Derby only just fizzled out, Ballydoyle's leading 3-year-old jumps back into the season just past its halfway mark on Saturday for the G3 Fitzdares Royal Whip S. at The Curragh. Sustaining an injury after his gallant third in the G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket Apr. 30, last year's G1 Futurity Trophy and G2 Beresford S. winner is re-entering the fray at an ideal moment with the Derby and Oaks protagonists either sidelined or with question marks over their heads. “He has obviously been off a long time and you wouldn't expect him to be cherry-ripe, but we have obviously been happy with his recent progress as his fitness is built back up after his injury,” Ryan Moore said in his Betfair blog. One who will provide a fair guide as to where he is at present is last year's G2 Kilboy Estate S. winner Insinuendo (Ire) (Gleneagles {Ire}), but she is coming off an even longer lay-off having last been seen finishing runner-up in the G3 Park Express S. here Mar. 26.

Hungerford Headlines Newbury Action

Saturday sees the seven-furlong specialists have their turn in the spotlight as Newbury stages a wide-open renewal of the G2 BetVictor Hungerford S. One of these wouldn't be right without Gary and Linnet Woodward's beloved Pogo (Ire) (Zebedee {GB}), who sets a marginal standard on his successes in the May 28 G3 John Of Gaunt S. at Haydock and June 25 G3 Criterion S. at Newmarket, as well as his latest third in the G2 Lennox S. at Goodwood. There are some potential improvers lurking, however, including Jon and Julia Aisbitt's May 14 Listed Carnarvon S. winner Tiber Flow (Ire) (Caravaggio) who was crying out for extra distance when eighth in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot June 17. Newbury also stages the G3 BetVictor Geoffrey Freer S. over an extended 13 furlongs and the Listed Denford S. which as the Washington Singer has acted on several occasions in the past as a marker of future Classic talent. Godolphin's Victory Dance (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) has already looked the part when second in Newmarket's G2 Superlative S. July 9 and remains in the picture for next month's G1 Vincent O'Brien National S.

All Set For Thilling Jacques Le Marois

Sunday's G1 Prix du Haras de Fresnay-le-Buffard Jacques le Marois at Deauville is set to be a high-class affair, with some elite 3-year-olds headed by Godolphin's G1 2000 Guineas and G1 St James's Palace S. hero Coroebus (Ire) (Dubawi {Ire}) and Cheveley Park Stud's G1 Coronation S. heroine Inspiral (GB) (Frankel {GB}). Joseph O'Brien shortens up the four-times Group 1 winner State Of Rest (Ire) (Starspangledbanner {Aus}), while Ralph Beckett pitches Marc Chan and Andrew Rosen's G1 Falmouth S. scorer Prosperous Voyage (Ire) (Zoffany {Ire}) into a rematch with Inspiral. Along with Ballydoyle's July 17 G2 Minstrel S. scorer Order Of Australia (Ire) (Australia {GB}) and the G1 Sussex S. fourth Bathrat Leon (Jpn) (Kizuna {Jpn}), she helps set up a potential strong pace scenario while the French rely mainly on The Aga Khan's unbeaten 'TDN Rising Star' Erevann (Fr) (Dubawi {Ire}) who was last seen winning Chantilly's G3 Prix Paul de Moussac June 19.

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Former Derby Favourite Luxembourg To Return In Royal Whip

News — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 16:17:02 +0000

The Coolmore partners' Luxembourg (Ire) (Camelot {GB}), a one-time G1 Cazoo Derby favourite until meeting with a setback in the spring, will reappear in the G3 Royal Whip S., according to trainer Aidan O'Brien. Held at the Curragh on Aug. 13, the 10-furlong event will be the starting point for the G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy S. and G2 Beresford S. hero. If all goes well in the Royal Whip, a start in the Sept. 10 G1 Irish Champion S. is also possible for the 3-year-old colt later in the season. The bay's only race this year was a solid third in the Apr. 30 G1 2000 Guineas at Newmarket.

O'Brien said, “The plan is for Luxembourg to start back in the Royal Whip here in a few weeks. The next plan after that is that he will go for the Irish Champion S.”

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Innisfree Returns on Friday

News — Thu, 12 Aug 2021 21:35:01 +0000

Aidan O'Brien takes the wraps off the long-absent Innisfree (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) on Friday, with the 2019 G2 Beresford S. winner and G1 Futurity Trophy runner-up returning in The Curragh's 10-furlong G3 Royal Whip S. Not seen since his 3 1/4-length defeat by Kameko (Kitten's Joy) in that juvenile highlight staged on Newcastle's Tapeta in November of that season, the full-brother to High Definition (Ire) faces a tough tasking giving five pounds to the course-and-distance G3 Gallinule S. winner and G1 Irish Derby fourth Earlswood (GB) (Pivotal {GB}).

Also on the card is the 14-furlong G3 Comer Group International Irish St Leger Trial S., where another Irish Derby protagonist in Wordsworth (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) bids to get back to winning ways following a string of solid placings in better company. Third in that June 26 Curragh Classic before running second in the G1 Grand Prix de Paris July 14, Ballydoyle's full-brother to Kew Gardens (Ire) encounters last year's G1 Prix du Cadran winner and June 17 G1 Gold Cup runner-up Princess Zoe (Ger) (Jukebox Jury {Ire}).

Princess Zoe's trainer Tony Mullins said, “I'd say she's coming forward all the time, which is unreal at her age. We believe this is not her ideal distance, but it's an ideal prep race after a lovely bit of rain in the last couple of days. I don't see any reason why she won't go to York and Friday's run will have the bearing factor on which race she goes for–that will tell us a lot more. I was afraid if no rain came for York and we didn't run on Friday, then we'd have nowhere. We're not worried about good ground, I just don't want good-to-firm. It was a brilliant run on good-to-firm at Ascot, but we have no desire to run on that ground again.”

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