Two-time Cox Plate winner So You Think is a strong chance to contest the Irish Champion Stakes, a race his trainer Aidan O’Brien has won six times.
“So You Think will possibly have his next start in the Red Mills Champion Stakes at Leopardstown on September 3,” O’Brien’s wife Annemarie announced via Twitter.
The entire has been kept in cotton wool by Ballydoyle since his Eclipse Stakes win last month.
O’Brien’s wins in the Group One feature include a 2003 triumph with So You Think’s sire High Chaparral.
The Irish Champion Stakes winner earns an automatic invitation to compete in the same year’s Breeders’ Cup Turf.
Meanwhile, Await The Dawn will be O’Brien’s main contender for the Juddmonte International at York on Wednesday week.
The winner of five of his six races to date, he was last seen spreadeagling his field in the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot.
Another set to join him on the Knavesmire is the filly Wonder Of Wonders, second in the Oaks at Epsom and third in the Irish equivalent.
The three-year-old is due to tackle the likes of Midday and Snow Fairy in the Darley Yorkshire Oaks a day later.
Other Ballydoyle inmates heading to York include Seville and the two-year-old Reply.
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