Runners Confirmed for Sunday's Group 1 Races at The Curragh, Aidan O'Brien Dominates Entries

Two Breeders' Cup bids are at stake Sunday at the Curragh

Two Breeders’ Cup challenge series races take place at the Curragh this Sunday on the second day of the Irish Champions Festival. The Noor Elaine Farm-owned Asfoora booked her ticket to Del Mar when she comfortably landed the Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) last month, which was a win and you’re in contest for the $1 million Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint. She faces 15 high-quality rivals on Sunday who will all be hoping to join her in winning the Group 1 Flyi…

Australian sprint star Asfoora looks for another Group 1 win in the Flying Five

The Australian mare Asfoora is the featured player in the Group 1 Flying Five Stakes, one of four Group 1s on the Sunday card at the Curragh in Ireland. The Flying Five and the Moyglare Stud Stakes both are Win and You're In races for the Breeders' Cup.

Runners Confirmed for Sunday's Group 1 Races at The Curragh, Aidan O'Brien Dominates Entries

The Curragh's Group 1 bonanza on day two of Irish Champions Weekend has attracted an aggregate 38 declarations after final fields for the track's four elite-level contests were confirmed Friday morning. Illinois (Galileo), with Christophe Soumillon booked to ride, is one of two Aidan O'Brien entries, the other being Queenstown (Galileo), and heads a field of nine in the G1 Comer Group International Irish St Leger. The undefeated G2 King Edward V…