Aidan O'Brien | 'Unique' Camelot eyeing Derby double

Aidan O'Brien | 'Unique' Camelot eyeing Derby double. Aidan O'Brien has hailed Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby favorite Camelot as "unique" as he bids to beat unfavourable ground and maintain his unbeaten record at the Curragh on Saturday.

The Irish Classic has been moved from its ancient Sunday slot to the last race on Saturday's card at seven.40pm, within the hope that it attracts a much bigger crowd.

Such trivia mean nothing to O'Brien, who is charged with masterminding the career of a colt who might produce history by turning into the primary winner of the Triple Crown in over thirty years.

He was given a assured ride by Joseph O'Brien to win the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and then claimed a small-field Derby in spectacular vogue at Epsom.

With O'Brien having won the last six renewals of the Irish equivalent and 9 in all, there'll not be several backing against him creating it the right ten on Saturday.

The only doubt in O'Brien's mind is that if the bottom were to come back up terribly testing.

"Camelot could be a terribly good-actioned horse. He clearly won the Guineas on slowish ground however it absolutely was pretty, quick ground at Epsom," O'Brien told RTE Radio.

Aidan O'Brien "He's invariably shown plenty of speed, plenty of sophistication, plenty of courage, therefore he is only one of these distinctive horses that return along terribly rarely."
Aidan O'Brien

"We would clearly got to have considerations if it went terribly soft and it's not ideal and also the a lot of it dries out, the higher it's for him.

"Paul (Hensey, Curragh manager) thinks it'll be dry enough up to race time and clearly we tend to hope that's the case.

"He's been special all along. He won the Racing Post Trophy last year, then he was terribly spectacular within the Guineas and within the Epsom Derby that was his last begin.

"He's invariably shown plenty of speed, plenty of sophistication, plenty of courage, therefore he is only one of these distinctive horses that return along terribly rarely."

As is common within the Classics, O'Brien has multiple contenders however there's a small doubt regarding one in all his meant runners, the Sandown Classic Trial winner Imperial Monarch.

"We hope to run Imperial Monarch however once we were shoeing him he simply had a small very little pulse in his foot, we tend to hope that does not grow to be something," he said.

"We hope to run him and also the horse that was third within the Epsom Derby (Astrology).

"I assume John Oxx's 2 (Born To ocean and Akeed Mofeed), Jim Bolger's (Light Heavy) and Dermot (Weld, Speaking Of Which) has one, they're all legitimate horses who need to be in it and it's as competitive as invariably."