By Daithi Harvey
Sunday's meeting at The Curragh features three 'win and you're in' type races for Longines Irish Champions Weekend and perhaps the most intriguing of the trio could be the G2 Breast Cancer Research Debutante S. for 2-year-old fillies. Aidan O'Brien has six of the eleven entries including last time out Newmarket Group 2 winner Clemmie (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}). However it could be two other regally bred fillies in September (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) and Happily (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) that lead the Ballydoyle charge in the seven furlong race. September, a 'TDN Rising Star' and a daughter of Peeping Fawn (Ire) (Danehill) has not run since winning the Listed Chesham S. at Royal Ascot in June while Happily, a full-sister to both Gleneagles (Ire) and Marvellous (Ire) impressed when winning the G3 Silver Flash S. at Leopardstown recently and their trainer commented, “There's nothing written in stone just yet and we'll have a look at things like the ground and how the horses work later in the week but September and Happily would definitely be possible runners in the Debutante Stakes. September hasn't run since Royal Ascot but she seems in good form and we've been happy with her. We were delighted with Happily at Leopardstown and we think she has come out of the race well.”
O'Brien is hoping to run Order Of St George (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) in the G3 Comer Group Irish St Leger Trial S. at The Curragh on Saturday and is looking forward to another productive autumn with the 5-year-old. “The Irish St Leger Trial on Saturday is the race we are looking at for Order Of St George at the moment. He's back after a break and he wouldn't mind it too much if the ground even got a bit on the slow side,” he said. Order Of St George could face several high class stayers in the race including Rekindling (GB) (High Chaparral {Ire}) who is trained by his son Joseph.
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