Horse Racing

Coolmore Colt leads in Euro Road to KY Derby


Cairo One Quality Sugar The pony, trained by Aidan O’Brien for Coolmore partners, rose to the top of the European Road to the Kentucky Derby with a two-leg win on March 3 in the Patton Stakes in the stadium. Dundalk in all weather in Ireland.

With the help of Ryan Moore, Cairo soon took the lead at the mile-long Patton, taking the lead for the long haul and comfortably winning. News At Ten second and Stormy entrya cross of Charles Fipke, came in third.

Patton has started the second half of the European Road. The first four events, which take place in the fall on grass, often attract candidates for the European classics rather than the American land races, and none of those have earned points from the races. That race reappeared for Patton.

Cairo’s future may well lie on the pitch at the Emerald Isle as he holds slots in both the Irish Two Thousand Guineas (G1) and the Irish Derby (G1). Get out Galileo mare Cuff; wristband , the foal was bred for grass and three of his four starts at the age of 2 were on grass. He finished second in the previous all-weather single start at Dundalk.

However, Cairo is also an early contender for the US Triple Crown, so the Kentucky Derby (G1) is not out of the question, especially since O’Brien has a history along those lines.

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In 2018, O’Brien brought Mendelssohn back after winning the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Turf (G1T) last year at Del Mar to win Patton, then shipping Scat Daddy colt to Dubai, where he won the UAE Derby (G2).

Victory in Dubai led Mendelssohn to the Kentucky Derby, where he was hurled from the start on a sloppy track and never recovered, to the finish line and made O’Brien realize that American land race not play by the rules of the Marquis of Queensberry.

“In the US, land racing is very aggressive at the best of times but when the weather gets like that, the aggression becomes almost barbaric,” O’Brien said afterward.

Cairo earned 20 points on the European Road to Kentucky Derby sponsored by Churchill Downs, helping him to top that list. The series continues with the Road to the Kentucky Derby Conditional Betting at Kempton Park in the UK on March 15, with 20 points for the winner and ending with the Main Condition Betting at Chelmsford City on April 1, where The winner gets 30 points.

The highest scorer is invited to accept a guaranteed place in Churchill Downs The gate begins on the first Saturday in May. If the invitation is rejected by the leaders, it could drop to fourth place on the leaderboard.

Fipke had said before the race Stormy Entry would accept the invitation if it came to him that way.

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