Australia powers to victory at York © Photo Healy Racing
Aidan O'Brien is keen for Australia to have to his next run in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on September 13th.
The brilliant son of Galileo won his third Group One in-a-row in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York this afternoon and O'Brien reflected upon the success at Killarney this evening.
The champion trainer said: "Today was a relief. I was afraid as he had done so well and really he was only ready for a piece of work. York being York and it being such a big race we took a chance. He'd have either gone there or done a piece of work.
"I trained him hard for the Guineas and the two Derby’s and when he got his break there wasn’t much change in the first three weeks. The more we trained him when he came back the heavier he got and I’d imagine todays run will leave him right.
"I’ll speak to the lads but hopefully he will go to Leopardstown. I’d love him to go there and get him back to Ireland."
Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes
