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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John Smith's Silver Cup aim for Suraj

John Smith's Silver Cup aim for Suraj | Suraj is probably going to own his next begin within the John Smith's Silver Cup at York on July fourteen once his spectacular win at Doncaster on Saturday evening.

Michael Bell's Galileo colt defied prime weight over a mile and three-quarters to win by six lengths and is probably going to be hit onerous by the handicapper on Tuesday.

Because of that Bell is stepping him up in school for the Listed event and is even keeping one eye on a potential tilt at the Ladbrokes St Leger, that he can have an entry.

"He'll probably run within the Silver Cup at York on the 14th, however we'll clearly see what the handicapper will," said Bell.

"There's conjointly a race a similar day at Chester. he is a pleasant, progressive, staying sort.

"The Listed race at York would be a decent race to envision if we have a tendency to can be wondering the St Leger, he'll nearly definitely have an entry.

"The hassle with the Leger trials is that they're not over a mile and 6, they're over a mile and a 0.5 and that we grasp he stays additional than that, however there is a massive gulf between handicaps and cluster Ones.

"He's a wise horse, however he is lazy at home thus he ought to regain with racing.

"So few three-year-old's actually keep the Leger trip, particularly if the bottom was soft which might bring him into the equation."

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