Racing Post Trophy

hopefully Aidan will put in something tomorrow,

be nice to see JFK or ol man river

Sure AOB said that Ol M R would prob be put away for next season after his last win.
Would not expect to see JFK either if ground testing, very gd fast ground actioned horse imo.

Either of Aiden`s stars would have to be supplemented today.

Pietrangelo is interesting if turning up(big guess) but Alexandra goldrun(dam) stayed 10f well on soft ground,and would be about the best bred in this race.

Looks a potentially awful renewal

Would not agree with that BJG, horses like Class Mate bring promising staying potential into the race,the ground could be very testing.

Racing Post ‏@RacingPost  4m4 minutes ago
Royal Navy Ship and Giovanni Canaletto to represent Aidan O’Brien in RP Trophy

Good standard then!

yes a couple of these rated around 114,this race is no better or worse than anything gone before,could well have a 116P rated after the event and maybe a new star revealed?

Just read the Timeform preview of the race and agree with them that Restorer is a spot of value at 16/1. I like the fact he is by last years winning sire Mastercraftsman (Kingston Hill) and he won his debut on Soft ground. Donny expecting rain.

Cheers sintonian,I  had missed that preview.

O'Brien told the Racing Post on Wednesday: "It now looks as if we will be represented by Aloft and/or Jacobean in the Racing Post Trophy and that Royal Navy Ship and Giovanni Canaletto will go to Leopardstown at the weekend instead."

Royal Navy Ship had been 5-2 joint-favourite with both **** and Ladbrokes for the race with Giovanni Canaletto as short as 7-1 with Coral. While Jacobean could have been backed at 8-1 on Wednesday morning and Aloft at 25-1, the pair were trading at 7-2 and 10-1 respectively after the news broke.

This after O'Brien told the same newspaper two days ago that Royal Navy Ship and Giovanni would be his RP runners. Nice of them not to question him about that bit of misinformation.

Jacobean is the interesting one - would expect him to go off very short and win if he runs. Expect 'the lads' have already helped themselves to the 8/1.

Jacobean looks the kiddie to me, real eyeopening debut, coming from the back, and soft-ground to probs for the sire.

Plenty of rain at the track this morning.

Horrifically bad renwal

Clock says Restorer and Jacobean but travelling and no bet for me.

A lay of the fav, for me. The soft ground will suit and sometimes that alone can be enough to make the difference with 2yos racing over 1m but I don't rate the Royal Lodge form highly and thought he had a particularly hard race there.

Trainer of Restorer just had the 6f 2yo winner at the track. Sticking with him. Gl all.

Fav won very easily. Can't see the race having much of a bearing on next year's classics myself but he was different class under today's conditions.

Has no classic entries at present. Perhaps the French Derby? Won well enough but race time only moderate compared to the likes of Motivator,Camelot,Authorized etc.

Camelot's time was slow.

Restorer woefully outclassed.

Think the fav is half-decent and related to some good horses. On Soft ground he'd be of interest.

Winner looks an obvious Leger candidate but you have to assume the O'Brien runners were simply there as yardsticks for their more fancied Derby types. Ther was no real support for them and Jacobean was beat from the moment they jumped out of the gates.

Terrible prices for both JFK and Ol Man River for the Derby. A few of us on here last year said Australia was a strong Derby candidate after his Gp3 win but thought he was still short enough at around 6/1, but at least he'd achieved a good deal more than either of O'Brien's top two this year who are available at only slightly bigger. Even though the Guineas looks more open than I can remember for a while the prices for those two in the Guineas is a joke.