Ballydoyle introduces Frankel colt at Leopardstown

Aidan O'Brien has trained six of the last ten winners of the mile maiden for two-year-olds at Leopardstown on Thursday (6.25).

These have included Camelot, who just fell short in his bid to complete the Triple Crown in 2012, and this year's Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial winner Douglas Macarthur.

The Ballydoyle maestro introduces a fascinating colt this time round in Nelson, who holds entries in both the Group 2 Futurity Stakes and Vincent O'Brien National Stakes. A Coolmore homebred, Nelson is a Frankel three-parts brother to last year's Derby second US Army Ranger, and half-brother to Group 3 Munster Oaks scorer Words and Listed winners Stubbs and Nevis. That quintet are out of the 2008 Irish Oaks winner Moonstone - another Ballydoyle graduate - who also has a three-year-old Fastnet Rock colt. She was covered by Galileo last year.

Moonstone's ability was mirrored in her three-parts sister, the Prix Saint-Alary scorer Cerulean Sky.

A second Ballydoyle newcomer is the Southern Bloodstock-bred Galileo colt Delano Roosevelt. He is out of the Danehill Dancer mare Again, who has already produced the Listed winner Indian Maharaja.

Again won the 2008 Moyglare Stud Stakes, before following up in the Irish 1,000 Guineas the following season. She has also produced a yearling sister to Delano Roosevelt.

The last of the O'Brien-trained runners is the twice-raced Coat Of Arms, who finished third in similar contest here last month. Coat Of Arms is a brother to Seventh Heaven, who joined Moonstone on the Irish Oaks roll of honour last year.

Kodiac, who recorded his 30th juvenile winner this year at Catterick on Wednesday, is represented here by the China Horse Club-owned Overcoming, a €340,000 purchase from Lynn Lodge Stud at last year's Goffs Orby Sale.

He, too, has big-race entries - suggesting that the Ger Lyons-trained colt, a half-brother to the Group 3-placed Lily Rules, should not be discounted lightly.

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