Aidan O'Brien and the team at Coolmore and Ballydoyle will decide over the coming week which horses will form part of their Breeders' Cup team. A few of the potential challengers such as Found (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and Seventh Heaven (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) were in action at Ascot on Saturday.
“They are all fine and all seemed to come out of Ascot good,” O'Brien reported. “Don't rule any of them in or out of America, even Found, and we'll decide in seven or 10 days' time.”
He added, “Seventh Heaven's race was a bit messy. She might go to America for the [GI Breeders' Cup] Filly & Mare Turf.”
Found again showed remarkable durability in finishing second to Almanzor (Fr) (Wootton Bassett {GB}) in the G1 QIPCO Champion S. on what was her ninth run of the season. In all of those efforts she has never finished worse than third and during her 20-race career to date, she has only finished out of the top three once when unplaced in last year's G1 Qatar Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe after a troubled passage.
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