O’Brien Unveils Summer Plans for Star Colts

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Japan (GB) (Galileo {Ire}) is set to head for the G1 Grand Prix de Paris on July 14 and bypass the G1 King George and Queen Elizabeth S. on July 27. Trainer Aidan O’Brien revealed connections are leaning towards ParisLongchamp on Sunday for the G2 King Edward VII S. winner, while English and Irish Derby winners–Anthony Van Dyck (Ire) (Galileo {Ire} and Sovereign (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}), respectively–are heading to Ascot.

“We are thinking of going to the Grand Prix de Paris with Japan at the moment,” said O’Brien. “He seems to be in good form, he seems to have come out of Ascot well. We’re thinking Anthony Van Dyck might go to the King George, with Sovereign. It could change, but that’s what we’re thinking at the moment.”

G1 QIPCO 2000 Guineas hero and G1 Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas fifth Magna Grecia (Ire) (Invincible Spriit {Ire}) is targeting the Sept. 14 G1 Irish Champion at Leopardstown.

“He has had a break and he is in good form now,” said O’Brien. “He has just started back doing good canters again. We are looking at something like the Irish Champion with him and he is another that could have a run before it.”

G1 St James’s Palace S. victor Circus Maximus (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) is eyeing the July 31 G1 Sussex S. at Glorious Goodwood, and his stablemate, G1 Middle Park S. victor and ‘TDN Rising Star’ Ten Sovereigns (Ire) (No Nay Never), who ran fourth in the G1 Commonwealth Cup at Royal Ascot, is a possible entry for the G1 Darley July Cup this coming Saturday.

“We are thinking of the Sussex S. with him [Circus Maximus] at the moment, but that is not yet written in stone,” said the Ballydoyle handler. “The plan is to run Ten Sovereigns in the July Cup and he seems to have come out of it [the Commonwealth] very well.”

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