AIDAN O’BRIEN will target four Group One races at Longchamp tomorrow but the champion trainer is after big money at Newmarket this afternoon where he throws his top-rated juvenile Alfred Nobel at the €1.8 million feature.
That is the Tattersalls Timeform Million, another hugely lucrative restricted race confined to products of last year’s Tattersalls October Yearling Sale.
O’Brien also has Dynasty in the race and is fielding Lillie Langtry in the fillies event which is worth a cool €870,452 while Irish interest at Newmarket will also centre on Tony Martin’s Salute Him in the Cambridgeshire.
On his Phoenix Stakes winning form Alfred Nobel is a Group One standout against his 22 opponents and it looks significant that O’Brien runs him considering the Danehill Dancer colt picked up a hock injury in last month’s National Stakes.
Lillie Langtry should relish better ground in her race after floundering into third on heavy going in last month’s Moyglare at the Curragh.
John Oxx and Mick Kinane will get a valuable taste of conditions at Longchamp today where the York winner Tanoura runs in the Group Two Prix de Royallieu.
Pat Smullen and Dermot Weld will be represented by Chinese White in tomorrow’s Prix de l’Opera and will also get their Longchamp eye in today as Famous Name, runner-up in the Moulin on his last start here, goes in the Group Two Prix Dollar.
The 2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner War Of Attrition is the star attraction at Gowran Park this afternoon where Fort George can be another winner for the in-form Henry De Bromhead in a division of the maiden hurdle.
Tomorrow’s home feature is the Group Three Coolmore Concorde Stakes where Duff drops back a grade after scoring a Group Two success at Doncaster last time. However Dohasa, getting 5lb, may be a better option.
