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O`BRIEN SET TO TARGET ST CLOUD

The Ballydoyle two-year-olds Sligo Bay and Leopard Spot remain possibles to give Aidan O`Brien a Group One farewell to the French season in Sunday`s Grand Criterium de St Cloud.

Immediately afterwards O`Brien`s focus will switch westwards across the Atlantic.

O`Brien confirmed yesterday that his four intended Breeders` Cup runners and the three other intended Churchill Downs starters will fly out 'early next week' and also confirmed the Breeders` Cup Classic second favourite Giant`s Causeway to be 'in very good form'.

Turnberry Isle is the O`Brien runner for the Juvenile colts race and La Vida Loca looks to have decent prospects of making the Juvenile fillies race having been made first reserve.

'Bernstein is in a Grade Three race the following day if he doesn`t make it into the Mile,' O`Brien said yesterday.

John Murtagh has an enviable book of Breeders` Cup rides, highlighted by the ante-post favourite for the fillies and mares race, Petrushka.