Horse Racing: Irish Champion Stakes

Auguste Rodin and Ryan Moore (orange/blue) won the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. Press Association Irish Champions Festival Aidan O'Brien star puts Ascot disappointment behind him with big Leopardstown win. AUGUSTE RODIN ROSE from the canvas once again to hold off Luxembourg and Nashwa and win the Irish Champion Stakes at…

The Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes (3.20 Leopardstown) is the highlight on day one of the Irish Champions Festival on Saturday and we're in for a cracker. Which big name will come out on top? Forecast odds: 9-4 By Maddy Playle Strong support for King Of Steel can prove well placed in this year's Irish Champion Stakes. The Derby second emerged…

THE World Pool is back in action on Saturday in what is a really high-class card at Leopardstown. The international tote is proving a big hit with punters who have been regularly beating SP for their winners. Developed and run by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, punters from 28 racing nations are now able to bet into one big pool. At Royal Ascot and…

The Irish Champions Stakes Day at Leopardstown resulted in €27.7 million (HK$232.2m) bet into the World Pool via the seven World Pool bet types in operation last Saturday. Auguste Rodin (Ire) (Deep Impact {Jpn}) delivered in the highlight race of the day-the G1 Irish Champion S. This was the third year World Pool was in operation on the Irish card,…

Auguste Rodin rose from the canvass once again to hold off Luxembourg and Nashwa and win the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown. Despite being a dual Derby winner, Aidan O'Brien's Deep Impact colt had run two inexplicably bad races this season. Having disappointed badly in the 2000 Guineas, O'Brien worked his magic to get him back…

While the Irish Champion Stakes and Matron Stakes will dominate much of the headlines at Leopardstown this Saturday, there are two other group races which will generate plenty of interest among avid and casual racing fans alike. One of those fixtures is the Group 2 Champion Juvenile Stakes, a one-mile affair open to two-year-olds. Diego Velazquez…

Sam Hart is joined by David Jennings and Graeme Rodway to preview the action from Leopardstown, Haydock and the Curragh this weekend. The panel begin by focusing on day one of the Irish Champions Festival at Leopardstown. The Irish Champion Stakes looks a great race but both Graeme and DJ are taking on the top two in the market. In the second part…

The one-two from this year's Epsom Derby, Auguste Rodin and King Of Steel will clash again in a stunning renewal of the Irish Champion Stakes. Last year's winner and runner-up, Luxembourg and Onesto return to Leopardstown for this Group One. Alflaila, Nashwa, Al Riffa and Sprewell also feature in a star-studded field. Watch the action at…

The Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes (3.20) takes place at Leopardstown on Saturday and the upcoming running of the Group 1 looks set to be a cracker. We have delved through previous Irish Champions and identified key pointers to help you find the winner. . . Six of the last ten winners have been three-year-olds, including St Mark's Basilica and…

King Of Steel heads the betting for the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown and Roger Varian has been pleased with the colt's work in the build-up King Of Steel winning at Royal Ascot for Kevin Stott, Roger Varian and Amo Racing Roger Varian is eager to see if King Of Steel proves to be an even bigger hit at ten furlongs in the…

It's nearly 30 years since a horse broke its Group One duck in the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes although King Of Steel is an increasingly warm favourite to do just that next weekend. As opposition drops away from the Irish Champion Festival's €1.25 million feature, Roger Varian's star dominates betting for Leopardstown's big race which…

An Irish Champion Stakes run under a blazing autumn sky in front of a raucous Leopardstown crowd was billed as the moment of truth for Luxembourg and he delivered in spades courtesy of a vintage Ryan Moore steer. In thwarting the Gallic challenge of fellow three-year-olds Onesto and Vadeni, who endured an amount of traffic under Christophe…

Four runners went to post for the feature on day one of Longines Irish Champions Weekend. And it was St Mark's Basilica who was the winner, from Tarnawa and Poetic Flare Ryan Moore riding St Mark's Basilica (right) on their way to winning the Irish Champion Stakes St Mark's Basilica preserved his unbeaten record for the season as the Irish Champion…

One of racing's greatest rivalries met for the last time at the Irish Champion Stakes on Saturday, ending in a thrilling head-to-head showdown as Roaring Lion edged out Saxon Warrior and claimed victory. It was the pair's sixth meeting - with Roaring Lion the favorite to win the 10-furlong feature on day one of Longines Irish Champions…

EARTH can Strike in the opener. Having won like a nice prospect on debut here last month, Joseph O'Brien's EARTH STRIKE should take all the beating in this Listed contest. She bumped into a decent stablemate and Ger Lyons' Sister Rosetta that day, but this course and distance proved to suit her much more than it did them as she flew by both in the…

Irish racing's first venture into the Tote's World Pool initiative has been described as a popular fixture with international punters after over €17.1 million (£14.6 million) was wagered on day one of Longines Irish Champions Weekend. No previous meeting in Ireland had opened up its pools to the Hong Kong Jockey Club-hosted operation that engages…

Leopardstown: expecting tickets for Saturday's Longines Irish Champions Weekend card to sell out Longines Irish Champions Weekend is expected to be a sold-out event, with organisers at the meeting's host tracks experiencing high demand for the 4000 tickets on offer. Tickets went on sale last Friday for those who had previously expressed an interest…

The cream of the flat racing crop assembles at The Curragh and Leopardstown over the course of the weekend for Longines Irish Champions Weekend. As Aidan O'Brien said: " It's an unbelievable two days' racing, we're very lucky to have it, and we want to run as many as we can." O' Brien will run plenty judging by the five-day declarations. The…

Ground conditions could be set to ease at Leopardstown ahead of Saturday's QIPCO Irish Champion Stakes although jockey Oisin Murphy doesn't envisage going being a problem for the odds-on favourite Roaring Lion. The Qatar Racing owned colt moved to a best-priced 4-5 favourite for the €1.25 million'Irish Champions Weekend' highlight after Tuesday's…

Dual Derby winner Australia is 1-3 favourite to produce the command performance in the Qipco Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown that organisers of the inaugural Irish Champions weekend are praying for. Aidan O'Brien's colt faces six rivals in the 1million euro 10-furlong contest, three of whom finished behind him in his most recent victory in…