Ballydoyle To Continue Ascent

[Wandering Eyes]

After a red-letter day with its juveniles at Newmarket on Saturday, Ballydoyle move the feast on to Naas on Sunday where Mount Everest (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) headlines a trio bidding to provide the stable with an 18th edition of the G2 Beresford S. Clicking at the third attempt over this mile trip at The Curragh Aug. 25, the son of Six Perfections (Fr) (Celtic Swing {GB}) is tailor-made for this stamina test in which his full-brother Yucatan (Ire) was second two years ago. Ryan Moore opts for him over the 14-length heavy-ground Galway maiden winner Sovereign (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) and 1.3-million gns Tattersalls October graduate and Sept. 12 Listowel maiden scorer Japan (GB) (Galileo {Ire}), and Aidan O’Brien said, “Mount Everest has progressed nicely with racing and we’ve been very happy with him since The Curragh. He’s in good form. We think he’s ready to go again. He won nicely the last day and is a colt that looks very comfortable over a mile.”

David Spratt and Sean Jones’s July 26 Leopardstown maiden dead-heater Pythion (Fr) (Olympic Glory {Ire}) and Michael O’Callaghan’s Sept. 19 course-and-distance maiden winner Power of Now (Ire) (Camacho {GB}) are relatively unexposed and the latter’s trainer said, “He probably went into that run at Naas needing a bit of work as he had a little break after Galway and looking at him the other morning, I thought he had improved again since Naas, so we are very hopeful of a good run. He is proven over the course and distance and the ground is back in his favour, as we feel he wants nice ground. There’s still plenty of improvement to come and he’s a horse with a lot of scope.”

In the G3 Weld Park S., it looks like Ballydoyle again as the Sept. 16 G1 Moyglare Stud S. third Hermosa (Ire) (Galileo {Ire}) takes aim at the seven-furlong contest. Her opponents include Martin Schwartz’s acquisition Foxtrot Liv (GB) (Foxwedge {Aus}), who followed a six-length maiden success over this trip at The Curragh Aug. 6 with a second in the Listed Ingabelle S. at Leopardstown Sept. 15. Trainer Paddy Twomey said, “She’s in good form and we’re hoping she’ll run well again. After her run in Leopardstown, I had this race in mind. The two options were this or the Rockfel and given it’s only two weeks since she ran, it made sense to keep her closer to home. It’s going to be another step up in class, but she’s progressed with every run and hopefully she’ll give another good account of herself.”

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