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Star attraction Luxembourg to score on return

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Vincent
Published date10 August 2022
Publication titleWeekender
HIS weekend is all about the return of Luxembourg and Aidan O'Brien's top-class threeyear-old is poised to pitch up in the Royal Whip Stakes at the Curragh (4.05) on Saturday. He should prove tough to beat

Luxembourg finished a creditable third in the 2,000 Guineas when last seen and that performance, in which he stumbled upon leaving the stalls and mounted his challenge from the wrong side of the track, prompted his hardening into favouritism for the Derby at Epsom.

However, injury has since interrupted his campaign and this represents his first run in 105 days.

While it is unlikely he will be at his best with bigger targets awaiting down the line, he probably won't need to be completely on his A-Game to capture this looking at his likely rivals.

Luxembourg cleaned up as a two-year-old with victories in the Group 2 Beresford

Stakes before striking at the top level at Doncaster in the Vertem Futurity Trophy, and the step up to ten furlongs for the first time should really suit this son of Camelot.

He could yet prove the best of the Classic generation and it would be disappointing if he didn't land this en route to stepping back into Group 1 company.

Aidan O'Brien could absolutely clean up this week and I'm hoping the same owner-trainer combination can get the ball rolling with Contarelli Chapel in the Listed Hurry Harriet Stakes at Gowran Park on Wednesday (5.20).

Contarelli Chapel will be a big price given she has three successive zeroes next to her name and she has failed to hit the heights of her debut success at Naas last April.

She produced an impressive Racing Post Rating of 93 that day and was subsequently beaten at odds of 2-7 to round off her juvenile campaign.

The daughter of Caravaggio is clearly highly regarded as she was sent off a 5-1 shot to defeat Homeless Songs in a 1,000 Guineas trial on her return, but flopped there and again at Naas in July.

However, I saw more from her at Galway in the Listed Corrib Fillies' Stakes last time when she was only beaten three and threequarter lengths by track...

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