O'Brien plots adventurous campaign with Auguste Rodin
STEEP CLIMB: Horses doing their morning exercise at Ballydoyle on Wednesday. Picture: Healy Racing
Where City Of Troy may tread, Auguste Rodin has already trodden. For Ireland’s Horse of the Year in 2023, a topsy-turvy season returned two Derbys, an Irish Champion Stakes, and a Breeders’ Cup Turf but was punctuated by disappointments in the Guineas and King George. The Deep Impact colt could have retired a success, but connections have made the decision to march on into his four-year-old campaign with more worlds to conquer.
One more piece of work will put him right for an early-season trip to Dubai for the Sheema Classic, a race his trainer, Aidan O’Brien, won with another great globetrotter, St Nicholas Abbey, in 2013.
