Duke of Marmalade may see action at Great Leighs Trials!
Duke Of Marmalade may just take part in the Great Leighs Race track trials meeting for the Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championship, trainer Aidan O'Brien disclosed.
O'Brien is eager to get another run for Duke of Marmalade before he plunges into action at the Breeders Cup on 25 October 2008 at Santa Anita race track in California . O'Brien will also not take Duke of Marmalade away from possible action in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
Duke Of Marmalade has now won five Group Ones in a row but did not go through on a sixth when he was not risked on heavy ground in last weekend's Irish Champion Stakes.
O'Brien has identified what has been named the Thoroughbred Open Classic, a £40,000 race for all ages where Duke Of Marmalade would carry a small penalty for his victories.
Experience on an all-weather race track would put the colt into contention for the Breeders' Cup Classic on a new synthetic surface at Santa Anita race track and O'Brien also mentioned Frozen Fire being under consideration for Duke Of Marmalade's other option, the Breeders' Cup Turf.
"I am not ruling him out of the Arc, but we want to run him at the Breeders' Cup with possibly another run in between," said O'Brien.
"There is a possibility he might run at Great Leighs on the evening of the QEII Stakes at Ascot Race track.
"They have a nine-and-a-half-furlong race there on Polytrack. But that is only a possibility at the moment."
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