Australia to avenge Galileo's Champion Defeat The eyes of the racing world will be firmly fixed on Leopardstown this Saturday when the Dublin track plays host to the opening meeting of the inaugural Irish Champions Weekend. Most of the attention will certainly focus around the shining star of this year’s Classic crop, the dual Derby winner Australia, who runs in the €1 million Qipco Irish Champion Stakes. Australia has been described by Aidan O’Brien as the best horse he has ever trained and is so far living up to the hype with stunning victories in both the Irish and English Derbys and most recently in the Juddmonte International at York. The regally bred son of Galileo will now attempt to capture the race that evaded his great sire. Galileo suffered his only defeat on Turf when beaten a head by Fantastic Light in an epic 2001 renewal of the Irish Champion Stakes. Galileo was sent off the 4/11 favourite on that occasion and Australia seems certain to end up an even shorter price this time with current odd of 2/7. Betfair Sportsbook are going out on a limb with an unbeatable offer of odds of 4/1 about Australia for New customers. The offer is available to all new customers for €10. So rather than getting back a return of €12.86 if Australia wins on Saturday these punters will pocket a cool €50. If you are betting on any of the races over Irish Champions Weekend you could do worse than check out the Betfair Sportsbook which offers Guaranteed Prices on all Irish Races. In other words if you take their odds about a horse and the SP is bigger your will be paid out at the bigger price. They also have a promotion called ‘Price Rush’ which enables you to avail of the Betfair Exchange odds if they are bigger than the Sportsbook odds at the time of your bet.
