Duke Of Marmalade could be a shock competitor at Great Leighs' trials meeting for the Breeders' Cup on September 27, trainer Aidan O'Brien has revealed.

The master of Ballydoyle is keen to get another run into his star performer before Santa Anita in October and while not taking him out of the equation for the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, he is putting a journey to the new Essex venue under consideration.

Duke Of Marmalade has now won five Group Ones in a row but missed out on a sixth when he was not risked on heavy ground in last weekend's Irish Champion Stakes.

O'Brien has identified what has been named the Thoroughbred Open Classic, a ?0,000 race for all ages where Duke Of Marmalade would carry a small penalty for his victories.

Experience on the all-weather would put the colt into contention for the Breeders' Cup Classic on a new synthetic surface in California and O'Brien also mentioned Frozen Fire being under consideration for Duke Of Marmalade's other option, the Breeders' Cup Turf.

"I am not ruling him out of the Arc, but we want to run him at the Breeders' Cup with possibly another run in between," said O'Brien.

"There is a possibility he might run at Great Leighs on the evening of the QEII Stakes at Ascot.

"They have a nine-and-a-half-furlong race there on Polytrack. But that is only a possibility at the moment."

Of Frozen Fire, only seventh when favourite for Saturday's Ladbrokes St Leger, O'Brien continued: "Frozen Fire was keen at Doncaster and the ground was wrong for him. We might look at the Breeders' Cup Turf with him over a mile and a half on good ground."

[ 本帖最後由 asiadragon 於 15/9/2008 09:46 AM 編輯 ]

Duke Of Marmalade 會在 Great Leighs 試 Trial:ddd:

Frozen Fire 有意跑 Breeders' Cup Turf ..都好正常..:tttt:

又諗住跑Classic呀??
唔好又學華盛頓咁壯烈犧牲..

最好 Duke 就跑番草地..泥地:ooo: :ooo: :sss:

又要搵d馬挑戰一下 :abcde:

心願未了，當然要一試再試

Henry 呢??:cccc:

應該會會育馬者一哩

報 直布羅山 同 藝術瑰寶 之仇

個人就覺得佢過美國未必嬴到

搵隻 幸運奇兵跑lor :yyy:

我想佢跑凱旋門 可以一決高下