Cape Blanco might go in Queen Anne

6/2/2011 1:04 PM  | racingpost.com
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CAPE BLANCO could clash with top milers Goldikova and Canford Cliffs in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot according to trainer Aidan O'Brien.

The four-year-old, a major share in which was purchased by Dr Jim and Fitri Hay earlier in the year, won the Irish Derby and Irish Champion Stakes last season and was fourth in the Dubai World Cup at Meydan in March.
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What the Nation is saying about Cape Blanco might go in Queen Anne...

I know that Ballydoyle has a ton of middle distance talent in the barn for the 2011 season. The likes of So You Think, St Nicholas Abbey, Cape Blanco, Await The Dawn, Fame and Glory, and Jan Vermeer. And that's just their older horses. I'm sure it's hard to find black type, G1 stakes races for all of them, and keep them separated from racing each other along the way? But I wonder if Aidan O'Brien isn't treating Cape Blanco almost as an afterthought? Because I'm not sure what this horse has ever done to warrant being thrown into the Queen Anne Stakes field against Goldikova and Canford Cliffs both, over a mile? He won the G2 Dante Stakes and G1 Irish Champion Stakes over 10f for Ballydoyle in 2010. He also won the G1 Irish Derby, and ran 2nd in the G1 King George over 12f for Ballydoyle in 2010. Cape Blanco's obviously a much better middle distance horse, and he get's rewarded by having to face Goldikova and Canford Cliffs at Ascot over a mile? Come on Aidan O'Brien?? Cape Blanco deserves more respect than that? It looks almost like you're just throwing him to the wolves here, because you can't figure out what middle distance G1 race to send him to? IMO.