Arlington Million Day - international runners

[my miss storm cat]

From what I've read, the following are possible.....

Ace
Phoenix Reach
Touch of Land
Nasheej
Rising Cross
Soldier Hallow
Blue Monday
Primary
Luas Line

Any that any of you know of? Thanks!

[my miss storm cat]

Be still, my heart.....


From Arlington barn notes.....

AIDAN O’BRIEN-TRAINED TRIO LIKELY FOR INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Irish-based trainer Aidan O’Brien, who sent Mrs. John Magnier’s Powerscourt to Chicago to win last summer’s Arlington Million, is likely to send highly regarded candidates to all three of Arlington Park’s International Festival of Racing Grade I races on Aug. 12.

Likely for Arlington Million XXIV from the O’Brien yard is Mrs. Magnier’s Ace, an Irish-bred 5-year-old son of Danehill familiar to American racing fans as the runner-up in last fall’s Grade I John Deere Breeders’ Cup Turf at Belmont Park Oct. 29. Previously, at that same suburban New York oval, Ace was a gutsy third, beaten three-quarters of a length for all of it in the Grade I Joe Hirsch Turf Classic Invitational.

In his last trip to the post July 15, Ace was second by a head in the Group III Ladbrokes International Stakes and before that was beaten four and a quarter in the Group I Prince of Wales’s Stakes June 21 during the Royal Ascot meeting.

O’Brien, 36, who has vaulted onto the top tier of internationally renowned conditioners over the last decade, is likely to bring Mrs. Magnier’s 3-year-old filly Queen Cleopatra to Arlington for the Grade I Beverly D. – the Arlington Million’s $750,000 sister race that is restricted to fillies and mares. In her last start July 1 at The Curragh, Queen Cleopatra was fifth in the Group I Audi Pretty Polly Stakes, but was a close third in the Group I Prix de Diane Hermes (French) Oaks before that June 11 and also third in the Group I Boylesports Irish 1000 Guineas May 28.

For Arlington’s Grade I Secretariat Stakes on the second Saturday in August, restricted to 3-year-olds of international caliber as final leg of Chicago’s Mid-America Triple, O’Brien is expected to be represented by Ivan Denisovich, owned by Mrs. Magnier in conjunction with Michael Tabor and Irving and Marjorie Cowan. The sophomore son of Danehill was eighth in the Group I Prix Jean Prat at Chantilly July 9 at last asking but third in the Group I St. James Palace Stakes during the Royal Ascot session on June 20.

LIST OF EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT STAKES CANDIDATES GROWS
In addition to Highclere Thoroughbred Racing XXVI’s Primary and Mrs. John Magnier, Michael Tabor and Irving and Marjorie Cowan’s Ivan Denisovich, three other sophomores still in Europe are now likely to make an Atlantic crossing for Arlington Park’s Grade I Secretariat Stakes on Aug. 12.

Dr. Ronan Lambe’s Royal Intrigue, conditioned by Ireland’s all-time leading trainer Dermot Weld, is an Irish-bred son of Royal Applause who was winner of his last two starts on the Emerald Isle, and is now expected to come for the Secretariat, final leg of Arlington’s Mid-America Triple.

J. Paul Reddam’s Red Rocks, runner-up in the Group I Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp in his last start July 14, is a Brian Meehan trainee also likely for the Secretariat. Red Rocks, a Galileo colt and also an Irish-bred, was second by a neck in his previous effort in the Group II King Edward VII Stakes June 23 during Royal Ascot.

French-bred El Capitano, owned by Ecurie des Monceaux and a colt who broke his maiden at first asking on July 7 at Deauville by two and a half lengths, is increasingly likely for the Secretariat. El Capitano is a son of the Danzig stallion Anabaa.

[my miss storm cat]

Ace withdrawn from the Meld Stakes tomorrow and will go straight to the Arlington Million..... unclear who gets the mount.

[my miss storm cat]

Johannesburg.....

Any word on Nasheej? Is she definite?

Thanks, Luv.

Please bring all 4 of those euros over for the Secretariat. We might get a price on Showing Up. Maybe even 5-2 or better.

[my miss storm cat]

Originally Posted by boldruler

Please bring all 4 of those euros over for the Secretariat. We might get a price on Showing Up. Maybe even 5-2 or better.

I take it you're not impressed.....

[GPK]

Yeah...the winner there looked awfully tough. Nice turn of foot on her.

I take it that the little stumble took nothing out of Rising Cross??

[my miss storm cat]

Well, I knew it was coming but still.....

Where's the little smiley face... the suicidal one?


APPEAL BY LAST YEAR’S MILLION WINNING JOCKEY FALLON DENIED
European jockey Kieren Fallon, who won last summer’s Grade I Arlington Million on Mrs. John Magnier’s Powerscourt as the regular rider for Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien, has lost a High Court challenge to a riding ban by Great Britain’s Horseracing Regulatory Authority.

The failure of Fallon’s High Court challenge means that the six-time British riding champion will almost certainly be unavailable for the mount on Mrs. Magnier’s Ace for O’Brien in the upcoming Arlington Million Aug. 12.

O’Brien is also expected to send Mrs. Magnier’s Queen Cleopatra for Arlington’s Grade I Beverly D. and Mrs. Magnier, Michael Tabor and Irving and Marjorie Cowan’s Ivan Denisovich in the Grade I Secretariat during Arlington’s one-day International Festival of Racing Aug. 12. A decision concerning an alternate rider for all three O’Brien trainees is expected shortly.