Having disappointed in the Derby, Aidan O\u2019Brien\u2019s colt bounced back at Sandown, beating the year older Ombudsman with a thrilling late run.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien is happy to put a line through his effort at York in the Juddmonte International when second to Ombudsman due to how the race was run and with John and Thady Gosden opting against the race with their charge, Delacroix is a hot favourite.<\/p>\n
Owen Burrows\u2019 stalwart Anmaat will have his first run since Royal Ascot, with conditions turning in his favour as the ground is currently described as soft, yielding to soft in places.<\/p>\n
Last season\u2019s Champion Stakes winner at Ascot has only run twice this year due to the dry summer but has shown he retains all his ability, finishing second both times.<\/p>\n
Shin Emperor is back for another go for trainer Yoshito Yahagi having finished a close third to Economics 12 months ago.<\/p>\n
Since that effort he has also finished second in the Japan Cup and in Saudi Arabia but he has not run since disappointing in Dubai in early April.<\/p>\n
White Birch is another with solid Group One form while Karl Burke\u2019s Royal Champion steps back up to the highest level having comfortably seen off Almaqam at York.<\/p>\n
Johnny Murtagh\u2019s Zahrann steps up in grade, Jessica Harrington\u2019s Hotazhell gets to race with cut in the ground for the first time since his Futurity Trophy win last year, while O\u2019Brien also runs Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n
The other Group One on the card is the Coolmore America \u2018Justify\u2019 Matron Stakes in which Burke\u2019s Fallen Angel aims to go one better than last year.<\/p>\n
She beat O\u2019Brien\u2019s January in the Prix Rothschild last time and the Ballydoyle runner reopposes, with first-time cheekpieces added this time.<\/p>\n
Coronation Stakes winner Cercene and the improving Vera\u2019s Secret are part of a field of 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having disappointed in the Derby, Aidan O\u2019Brien\u2019s colt bounced back at Sandown, beating the year older Ombudsman with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-415830","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\/115185793593439676","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415830","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=415830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}