Big week ahead for Clonard Street Despite attracting interest from prospective buyers in the wake of his Galway Festival maiden win, Clonard Street remains at the Rockview Stables of trainer John McConnell ahead of two big dates next week. The son of Archipenko was a half-length winner over Prologue last month and is now due to pass through the ring at the Goffs Champions Sale before racing starts at Leopardstown next Saturday. He is also in the frame to run that day, with McConnell having earmarked the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf Trial Stakes over a mile as a possible port of call. He said: "We still have him and at the minute the plan is for him to go to the Goffs select sale before the Champion Stakes in Leopardstown. "It's a little bit like the Royal Ascot sale. It's similar in that there'll be 20 horses with decent form and he was invited into it. He passed his examination for that no problem. "We may enter him on Champion Stakes Day in the race that Australia won last year - the (race registered as the) Golden Fleece. He's entered in the Beresford two weeks later as well. "If we don't get what we think we should get, we'll keep him. If we get what we think he's worth, we'll sell him and if not we'll head for the Beresford probably." Looking back to Galway, McConnell said: "There has been mixed messages from the form at Galway with the Halford horse, Prologue, being solid, but I'd suppose he is what he is. "Aidan O'Brien's horse (Hail The Hero) ran well next time but Dermot Weld's horse kind of let the form down a bit (Spryt, fourth at Gowran Park since). "To me the significant thing was - and I'm not a big times man - was that the time of the race was exceptionally quick on the day. "He jumped the road and he got bumped on the turn into the straight. He really only hit top gear in the last 200 yards. McConnell has let the dust settle since that outing, adding: "He's that type of horse, we just don't know how good he is. We haven't killed him since and we're only starting to wind him up now. "We'll probably do one good bit of work before we go to the sale and that'll help us to put a value on him."
