Could Swiss Ace be another Aidan O'Brien maiden winner waiting to take off?

Barely has the dust had time to settle on Aidan O'Brien's domination of the two Epsom Classics and it is already time for wheels up in Tipperary with three runners heading for Newmarket and York on Thursday.

Newmarket in the summer months used to mean one race for O'Brien, who unearthed a happy knack of winning the Group 1 Darley July Cup in the very earliest days of his tenancy at Ballydoyle with sprinters such as Stravinsky and Mozart.

The meeting also features a trio of two-year-old races which form a natural continuation of stories started at Royal Ascot and, having first secured the Superlative Stakes back in 1999 with Thady Quill, O'Brien has recently begun to pick up speed again in this department.

In the last four years he has won four of the 12 juvenile group races at the festival, drawing a blank only in 2018.

Swiss Ace, a regally-bred son of Kingman who looked more comfortable the further he went over five furlongs at Tipperary on debut, attempts to give O'Brien back-to-back wins in the Tattersalls July Stakes (3.00).

Wayne Lordan debriefs travelling head lad Pat Keating after Swiss Ace wins on his debut at Tipperary last monthCredit: Patrick McCann

O’Brien said: "Swiss Ace was very good first time out and won nicely. That was over five at Tipperary. We’re stepping him up in trip and, the better the ground, the better chance he has. He's a nice colt."

Three-year-old Dawn Rising kicks off procedings for O'Brien in the Bahrain Trophy (2.25). The trainer said: "We always thought he would stay a mile and a half and even further than that. There was plenty of cut in the ground when he won at Limerick so we wouldn't mind if there was an ease over at Newmarket for him."

At York, Cormorant has the chance to ink a small piece of trivia into the record books on the Knavesmire, as he attempts to add the Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Dante Stakes (3.15) to the Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial, two races which in any other year are run five days apart.

O'Brien said; "He showed a good attitude to win at Leopardstown. He stuck his head out and battled. It's obviously been a few weeks since that race, but he's been in good form since and we're very happy with him."

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