Davidv Lanigan mulling Main Leger run

Go Go Go Horse Race: Davidv Lanigan mulling Main Leger run. Main Sequence emerged as a attainable rival to Camelot within the Ladbrokes St Leger following his unlucky run within the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on Saturday.

David Lanigan's stable star took runner-up honours behind Aidan O'Brien's colt within the Investec Derby and will attempt to stop the 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby hero capturing the Triple Crown within the final Classic of the season at Doncaster on September fifteen.

While Camelot's stable companion Imperial Monarch created most of the running to assert the French cluster One over a mile and a 0.5, Main Sequence simply couldn't get a transparent passage through.

Wherever Ted Durcan tried to travel, he was blocked and Main Sequence had to accept fourth place, a length and a 0.5 behind the Irish-trained winner.

Lanigan has taken defeat on the chin and is probing for positives to require from the race.

"He's start of the race fine and is on his method back home," said the Lambourn trainer.

"That reasonably factor will happen and it's happened to plenty additional individuals than you'll name.

"It was only 1 of these things. They most likely did not go an excellent enough pace too soon, which may generate its own issues at that stage of the race.

"The necessary factor is that he has improved since the Derby and was unlucky in his run yesterday, however mentally he is grown up an awful heap since Epsom.

"We still understand we have a pleasant horse for the longer term.

"He's got one or 2 choices. it's going to simply take daily or 2 to digest things and i am going to talk over with the homeowners.

"It was frustrating however that is life and that we live to fight another day, however a minimum of we all know we've got a pleasant horse on our hands.

"The solely positive factor we tend to learnt once last night was that he can keep the mile and 6 of the St Leger. The trip would not be a retardant to him.

"It offers us plenty additional choices. something from a mile and a 0.5, i would be reluctant to bring him back to a mile and 1 / 4.

"There's plenty of things - the Leger, the Breeders' Cup and also the Prix Niel - and that we have to be compelled to have faith in next year moreover."

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The Prix du Jockey Club | Ektihaam team seek compensation

The Prix du Jockey Club | Ektihaam team seek compensation. Ektihaam is probably going to possess his sights lowered for his next race once competing in an exceedingly rough renewal of the Prix du Jockey Club.

Trainer Roger Varian needs to relinquish the Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum-owned colt a confidence-boosting victory before pitching him back in cluster One company.

The son of Invincible Spirit got no type of run and crossed the road in fifteenth place behind Saonois within the French Classic last month.

While the Chantilly showpiece was a non-event for several of the runners, Varian has been happy to ascertain Most Improved and Imperial Monarch proceed to success at the highest level within the St James's Palace Stakes and Grand Prix de Paris respectively.

"Ektihaam is okay however i am almost certain where we have a tendency to are getting to come with him. he is perfectly well," said the Newmarket trainer.

"It's attention-grabbing that the French Derby was a large number of a race and 2 horses that were unlucky in running have start and won a bunch One - Brian Meehan's horse (Most Improved) and then Aidan's (O'Brien) horse (Imperial Monarch) last night.

"Who's to mention we won't do the same? however it's nice to ascertain sensible horses start of that messy race and compete at the highest level.

"I'm almost certain of Ektihaam's next race, however it's presumably not getting to be at the highest level.

"We'll try and build him a winner in an exceedingly lower grade stakes race and hopefully he can complete at that higher level before the tip of the year."

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Grand Prix de Paris | Seven left in Paris feature

Grand Prix de Paris | Seven left in Paris feature. Only seven horses stay within the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on Saturday when the most recent forfeit stage - with one British and one Irish entry.

David Lanigan's Investec Derby runner-up Main Sequence has had this race as his target since Epsom whereas Aidan O'Brien's sole representative is Imperial Monarch, who endured a troubled passage within the Prix du Jockey-Club when last seen.

He was a late withdrawal from the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby at the Curragh, a race won by stablemate Camelot.

Saint Baudolino, trained by Andre Fabre for Godolphin, was a slender second within the Jockey Club and Last Train, Hard Dream, Sir Jade and Albion complete the septet.

On constant card, Fame And Glory and Brown Panther are taken out of the Prix Maurice de Nieuil.

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David Lanigan | Paris main target for Sequence

David Lanigan | Paris main target for Sequence. David Lanigan has been happy with Main Sequence as he builds towards the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp on July fourteen.

The Niarchos Family-owned colt lost his four-race unbeaten record when a five-length second to Camelot within the Derby at Epsom last day trip.

He holds an entry within the Princess of Wales's Stakes at Newmarket's July meeting, however Lanigan is favouring a visit to France where he can compete against his own age cluster yet again.

"He's done well. He had a quiet we have a tendency toek when the Derby and that we determined early we weren't attending to supplement him for eire as a result of there was continually a danger the bottom would come back up terribly soft and it had been continually the race for Camelot," Lanigan told At The Races.

"He's had a pleasant break and a niche between his races. He appears fine, he worked yesterday and he is sensible this morning. He'll do his last correct piece on Saturday.

"I thought i used to be being terribly clever coming into him for the Princess of Wales's, however it's just like the Breeders' Cup Turf on the entries thus he'll head to France for the Grand Prix de Paris, that is the set up.

"He got away with the bottom at Newmarket, Ted (Durcan) said he hated it, it had been turning soft. it had been quite fast at Epsom and he moved okay on that. He's a big, robust horse, sensible or to a small degree higher is not an inconvenience. He would not wish soft ground."

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Andre Fabre's Meandre Beats Star Fillies

Andre Fabre's Meandre Beats Star Fillies | Andre Fabre's Meandre got off the mark for the campaign with a fine show within the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.

The four-year-old was a vastly spectacular winner of the Grand Prix de Paris last summer, however was then overwhelmed within the Prix Niel and well held within the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.

His comeback fourth in Newmarket's Jockey Club Stakes failed to inspire a lot of confidence for the remainder of the campaign and a subsequent defeat at cluster 3 level meant he was the outsider of 4 runners during this competitive cluster One heat.

Shareta cut out the running within the early stages of the mile-and-a-half contest, closely pursued by Arc heroine Danedream and Meandre.

It changed into a sprint within the straight and it absolutely was Meandre who showed the simplest flip of foot within the testing conditions to say high honours underneath Maxime Guyon.

Shareta kept on dourly to fill the runner-up spot, with the returning Galikova the primary overwhelmed before staying on to grab third from the favorite, Danedream.

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