{"id":10428,"date":"2025-07-20T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10428\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:02:21","slug":"lake-victoria-future-uncertain-says-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10428\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Victoria future uncertain, says O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aidan O&#8217;Brien has revealed his Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Lake Victoria may not run again.<\/p>\n<p>The Frankel filly enjoyed a faultless juvenile campaign, winning each of her five starts including Group One strikes in the Moyglare Stud Stakes, the Cheveley Park and at the Breeders&#8217; Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Following an interrupted preparation she could finish only sixth on her return to action in the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket, and while she bounced back to her best with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/sport\/racing\/2025\/0525\/1514863-lake-victoria-claims-victory-in-irish-1-000-guineas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">brilliant display in the Irish equivalent<\/a>, she was subsequently ruled out of Royal Ascot and has not yet returned to work.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien &#8211; who is weighing up whether to run Jan Brueghel and\/or dual Derby winner Lambourn in the King George at Ascot next weekend &#8211; said of Lake Victoria in an interview with ITV Racing: &#8220;She is not back in exercise yet. She&#8217;s doing very well physically, but she&#8217;s not back in work yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;John (Halley, vet) will make the decision on whether she comes back into work for this year or is left alone until next year or is retired altogether. They&#8217;ll be decisions that will be made as weeks go by.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ballydoyle handler also confirmed his Coral-Eclipse first and fourth Delacroix and Camille Pissarro are both being trained for next month&#8217;s Juddmonte International at York, despite bookmaker support prompting speculation the former could drop back to a mile for a clash with Field Of Gold in Goodwood&#8217;s Sussex Stakes.<\/p>\n<p>With the highly touted Albert Einstein &#8220;probably not&#8221; going to run going to run again this season, O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s juvenile team for the second half of the season is set to be led by Coventry Stakes winner Gstaad, who has several Group One options coming up.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Brien added: &#8220;Gstaad is very well, he&#8217;s come out of the Coventry very well. We&#8217;re thinking he could be a Heinz (Phoenix Stakes) horse, he could take in Deauville (Prix Morny) and he could take in the National Stakes and he could end up being a Dewhurst horse at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aidan O&#8217;Brien has revealed his Irish 1,000 Guineas heroine Lake Victoria may not run again. The Frankel filly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-10428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}