When Rip Van Winkle won the Juddmonte International at York two weeks ago, Aidan O’Brien said: “He’s in a really good place now and he’s really on an upward curve."
As the colt had just beaten Twice Over and Byword, respectively the winners of the Eclipse and Prince of Wales’s Stakes, just how much more upward that curve might be is open to speculation but it should be enough for Rip Van Winkle to win the Group One Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown.
To read the full blog: http://blogs.bettor.com/Rip-Van-Winkle-for-dream-run-in-Irish-Champion-Stakes-a25364
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