The Juddmonte-owned son of Kingman won his only outing at two and briefly looked like giving subsequent Eclipse winner Delacroix a real race in the Leopardstown Derby Trial.<\/p>\n
Weld resisted the temptation to run him in a Classic thereafter, giving the imposing colt time to fill his frame, and he is now ready to get back to action.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s nice to have him for what is an excellent renewal of the race. You\u2019ve got horses rated 115 and 113 in the race, so it\u2019s running at probably Group Two level rather than Group Three,\u201d said Weld.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve two horses rated above him and he\u2019s a big horse that\u2019s developing all the time, that\u2019s why I waited with him, but I see him running a very nice race.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s grown, he\u2019s developing and he\u2019s a big horse, so I\u2019ve just given him time to fill into his big frame.\u201d<\/p>\n
On his big-race entries in the Irish Champion Stakes and the Arc, he added: \u201cLet\u2019s see how he gets on and take it one day at a time. Let\u2019s see how we do on Thursday and go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aidan O\u2019Brien\u2019s Expanded, unplaced in both the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the Irish equivalent, looks to get back on track while Joseph O\u2019Brien\u2019s Galen, who beat Coronation Cup winner Jan Brueghel in April, sets the standard.<\/p>\n
David Loughnane\u2019s mare Sparks Fly is a doubtful runner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Juddmonte-owned son of Kingman won his only outing at two and briefly looked like giving subsequent Eclipse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-266804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114863360241987388","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}