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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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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John Gosden outlines Top targets

John Gosden outlines Top targets | John Gosden is eyeing targets abroad for Izzi prime once she landed her initial cluster One in last Sunday's Pretty Polly Stakes in eire.

Wins at Newmarket and York already this season set her up nicely and he or she once more showed a sensible flip of foot, despite the terribly soft ground at the Curragh.

Given her dam Zee Zee prime won the Prix de l'Opera at Longchamp, that's a noticeable target, however she has conjointly been invited to Japan for the race won by Snow Fairy for the last 2 years, the Queen Elizabeth II Commemorative Cup.

"She's comes from one amongst the simplest Meon Valley families - her mother won the Prix de l'Opera. She's an enormous, robust filly and has higher with age," Gosden told At The Races.

"It was continually the hope to travel from the Middleton to the gorgeous Polly. we tend to popped the Dahlia in initial, that wasn't the arrange as a result of we tend to were having bother with the bottom and whether or not we'd get a race into her and he or she went and won that.

"She's a good filly, when she hits the front she does not do abundant. She did not just like the ground in eire however she handled it and he or she got through it.

"She'll be in races just like the Nassau and we'll see what the bottom is there, and also the Prix de l'Opera like her mother and he or she might investigate races abroad. She's been invited for the Queen Elizabeth II in Japan that may be a nice race, thus there are prospects however the key issue is we have got that cluster One to her name that for owner/breeders is incredibly necessary."

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