Aidan O’Brien can lay siege on big race at the Breeders’ Cup with classy City of Troy

Top trainer Aidan O’Brien has been bullish successful California up of the Breeders’ Cup gathering astatine Del Mar, claiming City of Troy does not person an Achilles heel. 

Winner of the Epsom Derby, the Eclipse astatine Sandown and the Juddmonte astatine York this season, the three-year-old has six wins from 7 starts and his velocity and stamina guarantee he’s thing but a woody equine erstwhile exiting the stalls.

Europe’s finest needs to amusement helium tin run connected ungraded arsenic good arsenic turf erstwhile competing against immoderate prime absorption successful the Breeders’ Cup Classic astatine Friday and Saturday’s star-studded meeting, which has a staggering $34million successful prize wealth up for grabs equating to £26million implicit here.

Todd Pletcher’s Fierceness struck a stroke for the Americans by winning past year’s Breeders Cup Juvenile and has triumphed successful 2 bully races connected the bounce successful mentation for this, portion Japanese colt Forever Young has besides has conscionable the 1 nonaccomplishment the six times he’s raced astatine astir the satellite – his lone decision was erstwhile 3rd successful the Kentucky Derby successful May.

City of Troy’s breeding means helium should enactment connected the antithetic aboveground and O’Brien has been pleased with his preparation, claiming nary chromatic has been near unturned, but the biggest interest is the gully successful 3 which means there’s nary borderline for mistake astatine the start.

With Ryan Moore connected board, however, the 7/4 favourite with Paddy Power, Betfair, Betfred, bet365 and Sky Bet tin marque the indispensable flying commencement and instrumentality the 1 mile 2 furlong contention O’Brien has ever dreamed of winning.

Charlie Appleby has arsenic precocious hopes for 2000 Guineas victor Notable Speech, who besides claimed the Sussex Stakes astatine Glorious Goodwood, successful the Breeders’ Cup Mile and the chestnut colt is 10/3 with William Hill, Betfair, Paddy Power and BetUK. But Carl Spackler, named aft Bill Murray’s goofy play groundsman successful Caddyshack, is an each-way menace astatine 10/1 with Hills, Betfred and bet365.

Frankie Dettori is reunited with Emily Upjohn for the archetypal clip since the King George astatine Royal Ascot past summertime and the Italian jockey’s cognition of the choky Del Mar people means John and Thady Gosden’s prima is preferred astatine 7/2 with aggregate firms to Rebels Romance and Luxembourg successful the Breeders’Cup Turf.

William Knight’s Frost At Dawn has tally good connected the ungraded astatine Meydan and with Dettori successful the saddle looks worthy an each-way dabble astatine 33/1 successful the Breeders’ Cup Fillies and Mares.

• Non-league Worthing are 14/5 with William Hill to origin an FA Cup first-round upset by winning astatine location to League Two Morecambe. Stick the National League South broadside successful a Cup acca with Doncaster, Charlton and Exeter.

• Sunderland are 5 points wide astatine the apical of the Championship array and should person nary occupation successful taking maximum points from their travel to second-bottom QPR astatine 11/10 with Ladbrokes, Coral and William Hill.

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