Await The Dawn doubles up for O'Brien & Moore Await The Dawn swept to victory in the Hardwicke Stakes to complete a Saturday double for Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore. The heavily-backed 4-6 favourite was given a patient ride in the mile-and-a-half Group Two but he began to make headway entering the straight. The four-year-old picked up well in the testing conditions, overtaking the game Harris Tweed passing the one-furlong marker. The son of Giant's Causeway stayed on strongly in the closing stages to score by three lengths. Drunken Sailor plugged on for third place. O'Brien was claiming his second Hardwicke success after Macarthur struck in 2008. Giant's Causeway was narrowly beaten in the Breeders' Cup Classic on his final start as a racehorse, and O'Brien would love to see Await The Dawn follow in the hoofprints of his father. He said: "I'd say he's won in spite of the ground as he's a daisy-cutter. "It's the same old story - he's got the class. "We were hoping that he had so much class that he'd get the mile and a half and we think he's a very serious horse. "We were always dreaming of the Breeders' Cup Classic - the dream is still alive. "We'll take him home and look at all the options for him. "It's always hard to know where to go with these horses, as we'd been thinking St Nicholas Abbey could come here for the King George and So You Think could go for the Eclipse, but nothing is definite." Moore added: "He had form on softer ground as a young horse and he is stronger now. "He has a lot quality. He already had form on soft ground, but he's won in spite of it. "He travelled well, but he just does enough." William Haggas, Harris Tweed's trainer, reported: "He maybe needs this sort of ground and he does stay very well. "I think we've been beaten by an extraordinarily good horse who will go on to win multiple Group Ones. "We've given him a race and I'm keen to save him for the autumn. "The Melbourne Cup looks an exciting idea, but my father owns him and he's 80, so I'm not sure he'll be as keen to go as me."
