Dry Week Could Herald Gleneagles Return

After quite an absence from competitive action Gleneagles (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), may yet get the opportunity to remind us how good he is with connections keen to run the four time Group 1 winner in next Saturday’s G1 Queen Elizabeth II S. at Ascot. Not seen since winning the G1 St James’s Palace S. at Royal Ascot Gleneagles has subsequently missed engagements in the G1 Sussex S., the G1 Juddmonte International and the G1 Irish Champion S. due to unsuitable ground conditions but with kind weather forecast for into next week Aidan O’Brien is hopeful of saddling his star 3-year-old colt. “Hopefully if the forecast is right and the week is good and he’s well through the middle of the week, there’s every chance he will run and we’d look forward to it,” said O’Brien. “It’s been hard on him as he’s been peaked three or four times and hasn’t got to run, but he seems in good form.”