Bank on Imperator Augustus

THE Aidan O’Brien-trained Imperator Augustus looks the banker bet at Dundalk tonight.

O’Brien is giving his son Joseph every chance to win the apprentice championship and, although he trails joint-leaders Gary Carroll and Ben Curtis by two, the teenager, who has lodged an appeal against a two-day ban picked up last week, has a number of big chances.

And the twice-raced Holy Roman Emperor colt Imperator Augustus stands out as the best of his eight rides, in the six-furlong two-year-old maiden.