City Of Troy has run last race in Europe this year with Breeders’ Cup next target

City Of Troy has run last race in Europe this year with Breeders’ Cup next target

O’Brien to give colt all-weather gallop in Britain firstTrainer’s sublime summer continues with Content

Aidan O’Brien’s sublime summer on the British turf continued here on Thursday as Content and Ryan Moore justified 3-1 favouritism in the Group One Yorkshire Oaks and while City Of Troy, his stable star, seems to have run his last race in Europe this year, he has plenty of stable companions that will continue the onslaught. “It looks like City will go straight for the [Breeders’ Cup] Classic,” O’Brien said. “That will open it up for all the other horses.”

In addition to Content, who “could go to one of the Arc trial, an Arc or to America”, O’Brien has a posse of contenders for next month’s St Leger at Doncaster and will, as ever, be strongly represented in the juvenile Group Ones at Newmarket, Ascot and Doncaster in September and October.

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