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Diamond Jubilee most likely goal for Vancouver

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Vancouver

Vancouver was a brilliant winner of the Golden Slipper Stakes 

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 By graham dench  7:00PM 9 MAY 2016 

Last year’s Champion Australian two-year-old Vancouver faces a race against time if he is to be seen to advantage in his brief stay in Europe this summer, but Aidan O’Brien hopes he might well have the class to cope.

The Golden Slipper winner, described by O’Brien as “a powerhouse” and “massive”, has been at Ballydoyle only around seven weeks and has to go into quarantine in preparation for his return to Australia just 24 hours after the Darley July Cup. However, if all goes well he will have three races while under O’Brien’s care.

Although a three-year-old in southern hemisphere terms, Vancouver has to race in the northern hemisphere as a four-year-old. He is entered over a range of distances at Royal Ascot, from five furlongs to ten furlongs, but O’Brien is leaning heavily towards the 6f Diamond Jubilee Stakes as his target there, followed by the July Cup.

“He’s very exciting, very quick and the Diamond Jubilee is his most likely race at Ascot,” said O’Brien on Monday, when hosting a media visit to his Ballydoyle yard.

‘He has to have a race’

Vancouver  is due to make his debut for O’Brien in the Greenlands Stakes at the Curragh a week on Saturday, although he will be by no means wound up.

O’Brien added: “He’s only really ready for a racecourse gallop, but he has to have a race so that we can learn about him. If he doesn’t have a race before Ascot we won’t know how we should ride him. Everyone has to be prepared for him to get beat there. What we’re asking of him is next to impossible. But maybe he’s good enough.”

Melbourne Cup goal for Bondi Beach

Australia might also feature in Bondi Beach’s year as connections are eyeing a tit at the Emirates Melbourne Cup.

O’Brien said: “Bondi Beach is not a definite for the Yorkshire Cup this Friday and could go to Navan on Sunday instead. His long-term target is the Melbourne Cup.”

Order Of St George is likely to be aimed at the Gold Cup, for which he is 5-2 favourite, but Royal Ascot is likely to come to soon for Kingfisher, who, O’Brien reported had suffered a setback. 

While O’Brien’s three-year-old colts and fillies are hogging most headlines, with Epsom approaching, he also has several other leading older horses and said that Highland Reel, who has run overseas on his last four starts, could contest the Investec Coronation Cup next month, as could Found, though she first has the Tattersalls Gold Cup on her agenda, with the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe the big target for her later in the year.

Read more about Aidan O’Brien’s powerful string in the Racing Post on iPad from 8pm on Monday or pick up Tuesday’s newspaper

 

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