?John Gosden, whose filly Enable is second-favourite for the Investec Oaks at Epsom on Friday, said on Tuesday she is fit and well before the season’s third Classic, despite a drift in her price on Betfair during the afternoon that saw her briefly trade at 15-2. Enable’s weakness in the betting was accompanied by a surge in support for Aidan O’Brien’s Rhododendron, the runner-up in the 1,000 Guineas and the certain favourite for Friday’s race. O’Brien has won all four of the Classics staged in Britain and Ireland this season and Rhododendron
Kawann Short Youth Jersey is now odds-on with most bookmakers to extend the trainer’s sequence to five before Saturday’s Derby, in which O’Brien could saddle as many as seven runners. Derby field rises to possible 20 runners after inclusion of Permian and Khalidi Read more “Enable worked yesterday and I was very pleased with her,” Gosden said on Tuesday afternoon. “She had a canter this morning and I’m very happy with the filly. “I think Rhododendron on form through [the dual 1,000 Guineas winner] Winter is a very legitimate favourite, but our filly is fine right now. I’m heading back to evening stables now and you never quite know what you’re going to find, but she was fine when I left and I haven’t had a phone call since.” The final declarations for the Oaks will be made on Wednesday morning but SkyBet and Coral were the only significant bookmakers still offering Rhododendron at even money on Tuesday evening. Ladbrokes cut O’Brien’s filly to 10-11 from 11-10 early on Tuesday afternoon, and Hills followed suit a couple of hours later. O’Brien was a 50-1 chance
http://www.authenticflyerstore.com/authentic-34-chris-conner-jersey.html the start of the season to complete an unprecedented clean sweep of all 10 British and Irish Classics, but that price is down to 14-1 after Winter and Churchill followed up their victories in the 1,000 Guineas and 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket in the Irish equivalents last weekend. No trainer has ever won all five British Classics in the same year, never mind the Irish equivalents too, although O’Brien took the first four in Britain in 2012 before Camelot’s defeat at odds-on in the St Leger denied him a nap hand. Advertisement The trainer could also threaten Bobby Frankel’s record of 25 Group 1 or Grade 1 wins in a single year if he continues at his current pace, and O’Brien has five of the 13 remaining contenders for the Prix du Jockey Club (French Derby) at Chantilly on Sunday after the penultimate declaration stage. Orderofthegarter, who took the 2,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown in early April before finishing fifth in the French 2,000 Guineas, is a possible mount for Ryan Moore, O’Brien’s principal jockey, although a typically late decision on riding arrangements seems likely. “It’s not really decided yet,” O’Brien said on Tuesday. “Obviously we’re looking at it with Orderofthegarter, Taj Mahal, War Decree and maybe Whitecliffsofdover. Homesman only won last week so we took him out as it might
Avery Bradley Authentic Jersey come a little too quick, and Wings Of Eagles is still in the mix for the Derby [at Epsom].” Moore may also wait until Thursday morning, shortly before the final declarations, to decide on his mount in the Derby on Saturday. “Ryan doesn’t have to make up his mind until Thursday morning,” O’Brien said. “We’ll go through all the horses and everything will be discussed. I wouldn’t say anything is written in stone yet. “The two horses from Leopardstown, Douglas Macarthur and Capri, ran a very good race in the Derrinstown and that’s a very good trial. The three horses that ran in the Chester Vase [Venice Beach, Wings Of Eagles and The Anvil] all ran great races, we thought, and we were very happy with the horse in Dee Stakes [possible favourite Cliffs Of Moher].” While the Derby Festival is at the forefront of most backers’ minds at present, the opening day of Royal Ascot is just three weeks away and American trainer Wesley Ward, who has had seven winners there since 2009, exercised his team for this year’s meeting at Keeneland racecourse in Kentucky on Tuesday morning. Lady Aurelia, who demolished her field in the Queen Mary Stakes last June and followed up in the Group 1 Prix Morny at Deauville, worked over five furlongs of Keeneland’s turf course in 60.80sec with the colt Bound For Nowhere, who is scheduled to run in the six-furlong Commonwealth Cup. “She had a great work,” Ward said. “We put here in front, like she usually does in her races, and she just kind of cruised around thereLady Aurelia is on target to run in the King’s Stand Stakes on the opening day of the meeting, and is currently the ante-post favourite for the race at 9-2 ahead of Acapulco, a Ward-trained winner in the 2015 Queen
http://www.broncosfootballprosshop.com/Russell_Okung_Jersey_CheapMary Stakes who is now stabled with O’Brien. Ward also expects to send four juveniles to the Royal meeting: Fairyland (6-1 for the Albany Stakes), Happy Like A Fool (7-2 favourite for the Queen Mary Stakes), Nootka Sound (8-1 for the Windsor Castle Stakes) and McErin (Norfolk Stakes). The final member of his team will be Undrafted, the winner of the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes in 2015, who is being targeted at the Wokingham Handicap over the same trip this time around
