Breeders' Cup Classic ambitions on the agenda for City Of Troy

Connections have long been of the opinion that the son of American Triple Crown hero Justify could prove just as effective on dirt as he is on turf

TROY-MENDOUS: City Of Troy powers to victory in the Epsom Derby earlier this month. Picture: Healy Racing

Aidan O'Brien has outlined the Breeders' Cup Classic as the long-term objective for his Coral-Eclipse-bound Derby hero City Of Troy.

Last season's champion juvenile may have failed to fire as an odds-on favourite for the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket on his three-year-old debut, but any notion he had not trained on was dismissed by a sensational display at Epsom earlier this month.