Point Lonsdale is one of the many stars on display for the second day of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend in Curragh.
Unbeaten four start dating, Aidan O’Brien’s son is at the top of the 2000-year-old Guineas and Derby list next year.
The Australian kid faces six opponents as he climbs Group One for the first time in the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes on Sunday – including three of Britain’s opponents in the Ebro River, Great Max and Native Trail.
Hugo Palmer’s Ebugo River is already a winner in the First Division, having reached the Keeneland Phoenix Stakes last month on the same road, with the Native Trail claiming to give Charlie Appleby a third victory at the National Stakes following the recent victories of Quorto (2018) and Pinatubo (2019).
Great Max represents Michael Bell, and Duke De Sessa (Dermot Weld), Anatoli (John Feane) and Ultramarine (Joseph O’Brien) some hope.
Young people who are filled with these tours have the opportunity to appear in the last Moyglare Stud Stakes, as Aidan O’Brien builds Concert Hall and Prettiest.
The goal was set by Joseph O’Brien’s champion Debutante Stakes Agartha, who has scored the go-and-distance goals for Cairde Go Deo (Ger Lyons) and the runners-up Homeless Songs (Weld) as well.
The first of four Groups in the stellar group is the Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes, which sees Tim Powerby’s Winter Power following its Nunthorpe success last month.
He was joined on the crossing of the Irish Sea by defender Kevin Ryan Glass Slippers, as well as Dragon Symbol (Archie Watson), Rohaan (David Evans) and Most Important (Karl Burke) – while the home team is led by the training of Joe Murphy’s beloved Gustavus Weston.
A study commissioned by Weld Music Seeker will call for a third consecutive victory in Comer Group International Irish St. Leger.
He is one of 14 runners announced at Classic one and a half miles, with Joseph O’Brien’s Twilight Payment and Ebor Sonnyboyliston’s Johnny Murtagh’s rival among his rivals.
Aidan O’Brien’s victory for First Love Group, meanwhile, dropped the Blandford Stakes team.
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