Gleneagles To Stay in Derby

Dual Guineas winner Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) will likely remain in the June 6 G1 Epsom Derby at Monday’s confirmation stage, trainer Aidan O’Brien reported from Chantilly Sunday. While it appeared more likely that Gleneagles would stick to a mile for the G1 St. James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot after his G1 Irish 2000 Guineas win May 23, O’Brien said, “I didn’t hear that he was going to be taken out, so I presume he is going to be left in tomorrow–I presume.” 

Also expected to stay engaged from Ballydoyle are trial winners Hans Holbein (GB) (Montjeu {Ire}) and Kilimanjaro (Ire) (High Chaparral {Ire}), as well as Giovanni Canaletto (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), the full-brother to 2013 Derby winner Ruler of the World. There has also been talk that last year’s G1 Prix Marcel Boussac winner Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), second in the G1 Irish 1000 Guineas May 22, could be supplemented to the Derby at a cost of £75,000, but O’Brien did not seem optimistic about that possibility. 

“I didn’t hear anything about the filly being supplemented in it yet, anyway,” he added. “All the colts that are in it, are in it. There is a supplementary stage tomorrow and I didn’t hear that the filly would be supplemented.”