Irish Champion

Out for the season.

The mkts up,(Irish A/P).

Cheers Penzance.

This is turning out to be a soft race eg no English or French Derby winner nor Eclipse nor Juddmonte nor King George.

FAR TO MUCH GROUP 1 in uk. ire france

I'd be apprehensive backing Economics at a shortie price. I'd prefer Auguste Rodin, if he turns up for the race.

Looks like the Japanese will be represented in this,Shin Emperor
an intended rnr.

I like Economics, and until City Of Troy won at York I thought his Dante win was narrowly the best middle distance performance by a 3yo, but what a terrible price he's been installed well before the race. No wonder ante post is virtually dead.

RP verdict: Preference is for last year's winner AUGUSTE RODIN, who has to bounce back from a poor run at Ascot, but he has done it before
I can't share their confidence.  I have said this before; if he was lower class, Timeform would happily describe him as "unreliable sort".

Ballydoyle will try to repeat last seasons tactics, and set the race up for Auguste Rodin.
It will not be easy for Economics on a tricky track.
Rumours of Auguste Rodin working poorly and unable to go past his lead horse.

Economics on the drift. Backable price now ?

Backable for me. I said I had Economics' Dante win the best middle distance 3yo performance on these shores until City Of Troy's International win. However, when he won in France I had him improved 4lbs again. I'm less confident about analysing his time than I would be over here but I have pencilled it in as a Gp1 performance in a Gp2 race. Happy to take the current price to find out if I'm right or wrong.

Cracking race.
Not how I thought it would be run with only Luxembourg going forward for Ballydoyle.
Economics had a rough passage out wide but dug deep to hold off Auguste Rodin.
Well done winners

Figgis
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   GL

well done figgis

Figgis, your analysis proved to be right again, well done. Hope you had a bet!

Cheers all .Marksman, well it proved better than my St Leger analysis . The only reason I dodged a bullet there was I took my eye off the ball with so much else going on, I may well have laid that winner otherwise.