Aidan O’Brien has assembled a Del Mar-bound Breeders\u2019 Cup team headed by the Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe runner-up Minnie Hauk.<\/p>\n
The filly, a three-time Group One winner, missed out by just a head at Longchamp earlier in the month and now has the Longines Breeders\u2019 Cup Turf in her sights.<\/p>\n
“Our races have been nicely spaced out this year and she came out of the Arc well; everybody seems happy with her so that\u2019s what we\u2019re thinking at the moment,” the trainer told the Breeders\u2019 Cup official website. <\/p>\n
Of the fast ground, the trainer added: “Yes, she loves it. She\u2019s a very good mover, she would love fast ground, absolutely.”<\/p>\n
Another filly travelling from Ballydoyle to California is Bedtime Story, who finished fourth to Kalpana in the British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes at Ascot last weekend.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien said: “She ran well, very happy. She\u2019d probably have preferred a stronger pace but ran very well. She definitely could go for the Filly & Mare Turf, that\u2019s what we\u2019re thinking.”<\/p>\n
Dewhurst runner-up Gstaad is entered for the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Turf, a step up to a mile after previous efforts over six and seven furlongs.<\/p>\n
“At he moment that\u2019s what we\u2019re thinking,” O\u2019Brien said of the race.<\/p>\n
“He came out of the Dewhurst well. We think the fast ground and a mile will suit him.”<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien also confirmed that the Group One-winning filly Precise is targeting the John Deere Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf and The Lion in Winter could go for the FanDuel Breeders\u2019 Cup Mile, with True Love a possible for the Breeders\u2019 Cup Juvenile Turf Sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aidan O’Brien has assembled a Del Mar-bound Breeders\u2019 Cup team headed by the Prix de l\u2019Arc de Triomphe…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-216458","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\/216458","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=216458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}