Joseph O’Brien

Air Force Jet / 2yo b c Charm Spirit - Wind Fire / Qatar Racing Limited / FORM: 21

He’s a nice two-year-old and he won well at Navan after a good run first time out at Naas and he has come out of Navan in good shape. I’ve been very happy with him and the likelihood is that he’ll take his chance in the Norfolk. He’d have an each-way chance in that.

Arthurian Fame / 4yo b c Camelot - Wishing / Blackrock Racing Syndicate / FORM: 0295-11

He is likely to run in the Duke Of Edinburgh. He is a grand horse and has improved a good bit. He put up a good performance to win the last day at Leopardstown and I’m sure that he’ll give the lads a good day out, win, lose or draw. He is improving and there is no reason why he won’t step up again. I think the course and distance will suit him very well.

Buckhurst / 3yo b c Australia - Artful / Lloyd J Williams / FORM: 152

He ran very well at the Curragh the last day. He has a couple of options over there and the Hampton Court is looking the most likely race that he’ll go for. He’s a good tough horse which won his maiden at Leopardstown and he ran very well when second in the Gallinule the last day. He likes a bit of nice ground.

Latrobe / 4yo br c Camelot - Question Times / Lloyd J Williams / FORM: 17220-34

He won the Irish Derby for us last year and he is in the Hardwicke and the Wolferton and it looks more likely that he’ll go for the Wolferton on Tuesday. He’s in good shape and he’ll go there with a good chance. He’d like goodish ground.

Red Tea / 6yo ch m Sakhee - Maimoona / Capel Street Syndicate / FORM: 7106-413

She’s a nice filly which won well for us at the Curragh and she backed that up, with very good run in a Group 2 the last day. She’ll go for the Duke Of Cambridge and she is improving and she’d have an outside chance in a race like that.

Jarlath Fahey

Sea The Lion / 8yo b g Sea The Stars – Ramona / Mrs Kathleen Whelan & Mrs Suzanne Fahey / FORM: 300/1113-

He looks great and I’ve been very happy with him. It will be his first run back but as he’s gotten older, he seems to run well fresh – he won first time out last season, albeit in a less competitive race. We’d like to see the ground dry out for him – he likes it good or better.

He has been a great horse for us and I never thought that I’d be going back to Ascot with a horse like him but it’s great to have one good enough. We’ll see how he comes out of this race first before we make any more plans for him - we have an eye on the Ebor, but we’ll see how next week goes first.

Ken Condon

Romanised / 4yo b c Holy Roman Emperor - Romantic Venture / Robert Ng / FORM: 1759-54

He ran a good race at Newbury and I am hoping that he’ll get his ground – he likes have good, fast ground. It’s on the slow side at the moment, so hopefully it’ll dry out a good bit between now and then. He’s in good form and I think the track will suit. I wouldn’t expect him to improve fitness wise from Newbury, but Ascot is a good bit stiffer than Newbury and I think the track will suit him better.

I’ve been very happy with him since Newbury and he is as good as he can be. He is a big price and I think he’ll run well. They usually go very quick over there and that will suit him. I just hope that the ground dries out as the better the ground, the better he will be.

David Marnane

Settle For Bay / 5yo b g Rio De La Plata - Dissitation / McGettigans Management Services JLT & Maurice Casey / FORM: 141-0884

He had a wind operation after he came back from Dubai and I’ve had the Royal Hunt Cup in mind for him since he won there last year. It won’t be easy for him, but I think he has come forward with each run since he had his wind done and he has been bouncing since he ran the last day at Leopardstown.

He just needed to know that he could breathe properly again and those two recent runs have given him a lot of confidence.

Surrounding is a very solid yardstick and he finished a lot closer to her at Leopardstown than he did at Naas and I’ve been thrilled with him since. He is in a good place and he has come forward plenty.

Ideally, I’d like another couple of weeks with him, we don’t have it and he’ll take his chance. It’s a very difficult to win two Hunt Cups, but I can’t get over how much has improved since Leopardstown.

He had that wind operation after his two runs in Dubai and it has just taken him a while to get his confidence back, but he hit the line well the last day, which was great. That race at Leopardstown has crowned him.

Freescape / 4yo ch g Cityscape - Careless Freedom / City Equine Syndicate & McGettigans Management Services JLT / FORM: /61-03498

He is a horse that I like a lot. He needs two to come out to get into the Wokingham and I have the option of running him at Gowran on Sunday and he if won that, he’d get a penalty which would mean that he’d be straight in. He was in Dubai and ran two cracking races over there.

He had two bad draws over there, but he wasn’t beaten far in either race. He ran well at the Curragh and he has come on a lot for that run. He has been training very well and I think his style of racing is perfect for the Wokingham. The good galop they go over there would suit him too. We’ll see about running him on Sunday – it’s not something that I’d like to do, as it’s a very quick turnaround. There is also a good race for him at Newcastle the week after Ascot. He loves that place and that is another option for him.