Camelot still on course for Guineas.
Aidan O’Brien’s Camelot still remains on course for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on May 5th after working yesterday at The Curragh after racing. Camelot is currently Ante Post favourite for the 2000 Guineas as well as the Epsom Derby. The unbeaten Racing Post Trophy winner was partnered by Joseph O’Brien in an 11-horse group [...]
Aidan O’Brien’s Gold Cup-winning star Fame And Glory seeks to add a sixth Group One victory to his impressive record when he tackles the Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh. The five-year-old was coming off a two-month break when beaten a neck by Fictional Account, who renews rivalry, in the St Leger Trial over [...]
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Fictional Account and Fame And Glory could be set to clash once again in next month’s Irish Field St Leger at the Curragh. Vincent Ward’s mare caused a huge shock at the weekend when beating Aidan O’Brien’s Ascot Gold Cup winner in a trial for the final Irish Classic of the season. With the winner [...]
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Fame And Glory suffered a shock reverse behind 14-1 chance Fictional Account in the Irish Field St Leger Trial Stakes. Aidan O’Brien’s charge was having his first start since claiming the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot, and all seemed to be going well as he travelled smoothly enough to take closer order in the straight. [...]
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In a major surprise at the five day declaration stage, Rite Of Passage, last year’s winner and ante-post favourite to repeat the dose, was absent from the runners for this year’s Ascot Gold Cup. Dermot Weld’s reigning champion finished third on his seasonal debut behind fellow Gold Cup contender, Fame And Glory, in the Saval [...]
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Yesterday’s forfeit stage for the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes sees ten starters remaining to challenge for the event. The previous ten years has seen Aidan O’Brien claiming glory on five occurrences in this esteemed Group One race, with this year seeing a formidable team of runners from the Ballydoyle stable, including Fame And Glory, [...]
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Heading up the dance card for trainer Aidan O’Brien for the Tattersalls Millions Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on Saturday are Rip Van Winkle and Fame And Glory. The duo Group One victors, together with Irish Derby champ Cape Blanco, Beethoven and Black Quartz hoped, by the trainer from Ballydoyle, to produce a winner, with O’Brien [...]
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It appears that the Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on September 4th may become a battleground for stablemates Fame And Glory and Cape Blanco. Although the duo have had victories the previous two runnings of the Irish Derby, trainer Aidan O’Brien would not be loath to pitting them against one another. Fame And [...]
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Whether Choose Me will have any involvement in the Keeneland Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh on Sunday will depend on if the impressive Fame And Glory is expected to be a starter. The victor of Irish Derby last year, Fame And Glory, was the imposing winner of the Coronation Cup at Epsom on his [...]
Continue reading …It’s always a difficult time of year to be a punter, as the last hurrah’s of the jumping season dovetail with the first flushes of the incumbent flat campaign. And so it proved for punters this weekend at the respective jump and flat cards at Limerick and the Curragh. Limerick’s feature was the Hugh McMahon [...]
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