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O’Meara relishes Cup challenge
- Updated: October 26, 2016
Yorkshire trainer David O’Meara will be double-handed at the Breeders’ Cup meeting at Santa Anita in Los Angeles on Saturday November 5th as he has entered both Mondialiste and Suedois.
Mondialiste is no stranger to this fixture having finished an excellent second behind the brilliant Tepin in the 2015 Breeders’ Cup Mile.
He again holds an entry in the $2 million Mile, but is also engaged in the $4 million Breeders’ Cup Turf having guaranteed himself a place in the field by landing the Grade 1 Arlington Million in Chicago in August – which is a ‘Win And You’re In’ event for the Turf.
Winner of last season’s Team British Racing Champion Award as the British-trained horse to win most prizemoney outside Europe in 2015, Mondialiste has been on his travels again this term and last time out stayed on strongly in the closing stages to take fourth in the Grade 1 Shadwell Turf Mile at Keeneland.
Suedois is also entered in the Breeders’ Cup Mile but is more likely to run in the $1 million Grade 1 Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint over six and a half furlongs. He has proved himself a top class sprinter over …
