Aidan O`Brien has 12 of the 20 two-year-olds left in the Racing Post Trophy at today`s confirmation stage.
Ireland`s champion trainer has won this Group One contest on two previous occasions, with Saratoga Springs in 1997 and Aristotle 12 months ago, and appears to have set his stall out to record a third victory in the Doncaster race, which is run over the round mile.
Among O`Brien`s team in the #175,000 event are leading Classic hope Hemingway, last month`s Aga Khan Studs National Stakes winner Beckett and King Charlemagne, who beat another of Saturday`s contenders Grandera by a neck in the Somerville Tattersalls Stakes at Newmarket last month.
Confirmations: Beckett (trained by Aidan O`Brien, Ireland), Black Minnaloushe (O`Brien, Ireland), Bonnard (O`Brien, Ireland), Cashel Palace (O`Brien, Ireland), Cauvery (Sean Woods), Cd Europe (Mick Channon), Darwin (O`Brien, Ireland), Dayglow Dancer (Mick Channon), Dilshaan (Sir Michael Stoute), Fair Question (John Dunlop), Freud (O`Brien, Ireland), Grandera (James Fanshawe), Hemingway (O`Brien, Ireland), Honours List (O`Brien, Ireland), King Charlemagne (O`Brien, Ireland), King`s County (O`Brien, Ireland), Mozart (O`Brien, Ireland), Snowstorm (Michael Bell), Tamburlaine (Richard Hannon), Turnberry Isle (O`Brien, Ireland) (20).
