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Aidan O’Brien expects Magical to continue training next season after the seven-time Group 1 winner ended her season with a third-place finish at the Longines Hong Kong Cup.
The five-year-old globetrotter ran another mighty race, but found Japanese pair Normcore and Win Bright too good for him in the HK $ 28 million (£ 2.73 million / € 2.92 million) feature on Sunday.
That was Magical’s seventh race this year, all of which made it to Group 1 level, where he won three and finished in the frame at every start.
And there is hope that he will continue his sports career in 2021, although the connections have not confirmed any decisions.
O’Brien told Sky Sports Racing: “As we always do, the guys will talk to each other about what they want to do and then they will talk to us and decide what we are going to do.
“She looks really good after the race and it seems like she went well, we will take her home and make a plan. But she would be a mare for next season, she is an incredible horse.”
Hong Kong Cup result
Normcore was recording the biggest win of her career and the Kiyoshi Hagiwara-trained runner continued well to hit by three-quarters of a length.
But Christophe Soumillon will have to add his name to the dying list of Group 1 winning races that have been missed this season. Zac Purton stepped in on Sunday after Soumillon failed to meet all of the strict Covid-19 regulations to compete.
Soumillon also missed the glory of the Breeders’ Cup with Order Of Australia and Tarnawa in America last month.
Zac Purton, with his second Cup winner, said: “I wouldn’t say it was an unexpected result, I knew I had a good chance from a lovely door. He had a bit of enthusiasm but he fought well. He had to.” Dig and she showed heart. “
He added: “Now I have earned more [Hong Kong] International Races than anyone else, so that’s for the best. “
‘He’s going to be a lovely miler next year’
Shock Breeders Cup Mile winner Order Of Australia will certainly continue to train next season with O’Brien pointing to the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot as his likely target at the start of the season.
The three-year-old was an unlucky sixth on the Hong Kong Mile, proving no match for the flawless Golden Sixty, who looks like a world-class miler for next season.
Hong Kong Mile Result
But the lightweight racing Order Of Australia, who was rated a 40-1 outsider when she led housemates Circus Maximus and Lope Y Fernandez at Keeneland last month, could continue to excel at the top level next season.
“We were very happy with his career,” O’Brien added. “He had a completely different draw to America, he was stuck a little behind the beat and probably had to wait for them to move before he did. He started to cum, but the gaps just didn’t open for him and then he just went down. a March.
“We think he will be a lovely miler next year, maybe starting on the Queen Anne and possibly a little sooner.”
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FIRST POST 9:40 AM, DECEMBER 13, 2020
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