Ireland\u2019s Group One campaign is over but there\u2019s transatlantic top-flight Irish interest this weekend with the combination of Frankie Dettori and Diego Velazqauez a headline act at Keeneland on Saturday night. <\/p>\n
Aidan O\u2019Brien has booked the Italian veteran for his Prix Jacques Le Marois winner in the Grade One $1.25 million Coolmore Mile, a race the Irish trainer won twice before in 2002 and 2006. <\/p>\n
Diego Velazquez is a 7\/2 morning line favourite for the 12-runner race due off at 10.48pm Irish time. Another French Group One winner in the line-up is Woodshauna while Andrew Balding\u2019s Jonquil will break from an unfavourable outside draw in 12.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien is represented in all bar one of Longchamp\u2019s eight Group contests over Arc weekend. The exception is Sunday\u2019s Qatar Prix de l\u2019Abbaye where Jack Davison\u2019s She\u2019s Quality and champion apprentice James Ryan fly the Irish flag.<\/p>\n
Paddy Twomey sends One Look for Sunday\u2019s \u20ac500,000 Prix de l\u2019Opera, the race after the Arc, in which Jessica Harrington\u2019s Barnavara and Wemighttakedlongway join the Ballydoyle hope January.<\/p>\n
Donnacha O\u2019Brien has his own Group One ambitions on Saturday and jockey Gavin Ryan teams up with Atsila in Newmarket\u2019s Group One Sun Chariot Stakes. The proven top-flight winners Cinderella\u2019s Dream and Fallen Angel head the home defence.<\/p>\n
Last month\u2019s Irish Champions Festival saw the end of top-class domestic flat action but there\u2019s certainly no decrease in the amount of racing taking place here. This weekend sees a run of daily double-fixtures until Monday and they will continue next week from Thursday.<\/p>\n
The changing seasons are underlined on Saturday, where the Curragh takes place at the same time as Gowran, which hosts the Galway Plate winner Western Fold in the Grade Two PWC Champion Chase.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Tipperary stages its traditional mixed programme, where Paddy Twomey\u2019s Deepone lines up for the Listed Concorde Stakes, part of a card that also includes a trio of black-type jumps races. <\/p>\n
They include a novice chase that features the smart Gold Dancer and Pied Piper although they both could have a task in conceding 7lbs to Henry de Bromhead\u2019s Killarney winner, Downmexicoway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s Group One campaign is over but there\u2019s transatlantic top-flight Irish interest this weekend with the combination of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-178644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178644","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=178644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}