Carlton House looking to end Aidan O’Brien’s super run and end 17 year winless streak
It has been a staggering 17 years since an English horse won the Irish Derby. Queen Elizabeth’s Carlton House could throw the massive piece of stat out of the window and put an end to the English dry spell at the Curragh.
Carlton House who finished third in the Investec Epsom Derby will face off seven other rivals running for glory at Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby.
Aidan O’Brien will run four horses in the race, hoping to get his sixth successive victory in the Irish Derby.
The French raider, Native Khan, has a fair chance of winning the race with jockey, Johnny Murtagh.
Trainer, Ed Dunlop, thinks that his 3-year-old grey colt will be in for a chance among seven other and has a good shout of winning the Irish Derby.
The one-mile four furlong classic will prove to be ideal distance for Native Khan as he holds well in these kinds of distances.
The colt needs a little bit of improvement when it comes to competing against horses that will take over at will but with experience he will surely capture the capacity of big races.
Native Khan finished fifth in the Epsom Derby, but the Irish equivalent is a different race altogether.
It demands fitness because it is a stamina track and it goes without saying that the horses in top condition will determine the fate of the Irish Derby this year.
Aidan O’Brien has haunted the British trainers long enough to discourage them for even trying their luck at the Irish Derby.
The champion trainer who is looking for his sixth consecutive win in the Irish Derby will deploy four horses. The likes of Treasure Beach and Seville will be the other two.
Eight times Irish Derby winner, Aidan O’Brien, has successfully kept trainers and horses at bay and aims to do the same in this year’s Irish Derby meet.
He has stolen the positive expectations from British trainers and the last British trained horse at Irish soil was Balanchine in 1994.
The Irish Derby hasn’t eluded all international trainers, three French trainers have won it but when it comes to British trainers, the drought still continues.
It takes a single race to change history and this edition of the Irish Derby could prove to be one of those history changing races, courtesy of Carlton House, sitting at 11 to 8 favourite for the 26th June meeting.
If we he hadn’t thrown a show at the Epsom Derby this year, things might have gone in Carlton House’s favour but it wasn’t to be and he claimed a respectable third finish.
Aidan O’Brien could play as the villain as he does so often when it comes to Irish Derby but this time around Carlton House could prove to be a handful.
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