The declarations for Saturday's G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy caused a stir on Monday when it was revealed that just one British-trained horse-Qatar Racing's Kameko (Kitten's Joy)–had remained engaged to face 11 Ballydoyle challengers. Speaking from The Curragh on Tuesday, Aidan O'Brien revealed that he will run “four or five” of those, and that 2-5 favourite Mogul (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) and Innisfree (Ire) (Galileo {Ire})-last out winners respectively of the G2 KPMG Champions Juvenile S. and the G2 Beresford S.-are his leading contenders.
“The two horses that were being trained for it were Innisfree and Mogul, and then it's whatever else we'll run with them,” O'Brien said. “Armory might go to France [on Sunday for the G1 Criterium International], but it's not guaranteed. We have the two main ones going there and we could run three others. It's a good race.”
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