O´Brien tries again

Aidan O´Brien has failed to hit the Group One mark overseas with his juveniles so far this season but Antonius Pius and Troubadour could remedy that in Saturday´s Dewhurst Stakes.

Both colts are likely runners in Britain´s premier two-year-old race and O´Brien said yesterday: 'We could run more than Troubadour and Antonius Pius. Nothing has been confirmed yet.'

The seven-furlong event is turning into a potentially hot contest with Middle Park winner Three Valleys and Champagne victor Lucky Story also set to run.

Top level success for O´Brien has come in Ireland with One Cool Cat in both the Phoenix Stakes and National Stakes. Necklace also won the Moyglare.

O´Brien also confirmed yesterday that High Chaparral would try to repeat last year´s success in the Breeders´ Cup Turf at Santa Anita on Saturday week.

His other Breeders´ Cup runners will be Statue Of Liberty (mile), Grand Reward and Old Deuteronomy in the Juvenile and Hold That Tiger in the Classic.

O´Brien´s focus today, however, will be on Navan´s all-flat card which sees him introduce newcomers in both divisions of the fillies maiden and the four-year-old Sahara Desert goes in the nine-furlong conditions race.

Multazem, successful last time out, could relish the easier ground conditions more than Sahara Desert and the Dermot Weld-Pat Smullen team could also score with the Sadler´s Wells newcomer Lisieux Orchid.

O´Brien´s Shangri La has her first start since April and the maiden looks hers for the taking.

Miss Leading is a stone higher in the ratings after a Down Royal success on firm ground but the College Chappel filly should be just at home in the forecast 'good to yielding' in the first.