St Mark’s Basilica: ‘He has all the things you would love in a horse’
A little over a week out from Longines Irish Champions Weekend, the mouth-watering clash between Tarnawa and St Mark’s Basilica, in the Irish Champion Stakes, is very much on. After the mare’s rider, Colin Keane, gave a positive bulletin on Tuesday, St Mark’s Basilica’s trainer, Aidan O’Brien, was equally enthusiastic as he spoke of his charge, unbeaten in three runs to date this season.
When a trainer with 15 Group 1s already tucked away this season can say that it’s “going okay, I think really,” then you have to believe there is more to come, and in St Mark’s Basilica he has a colt of outstanding ability whose ceiling has not yet been reached.
