NEWS ROUND-UP:DAVID WACHMAN is targeting a Group One hat-trick for his top juveniles with the top filly Again now on course to run in Sunday's Prix Marcel Boussac at Longchamp.
A winter break had been proposed for Again after her decisive Moyglare Stud Stakes victory last month, but the 10 to 1 second-favourite for next year's 1,000 Guineas is set for one more start this year.
"The Boussac is the plan at the moment so hopefully everything goes well between now and the weekend," Wachman said yesterday.
The Co Tipperary trainer also has a Group One-winning colt in his care, and Bushranger will attempt to follow up his Prix Monry success in Friday's Middle Park Stakes at Newmarket.
He will be joined on the card by the wide-margin Dundalk winner Pursuit Of Glory, who steps up to Group One class herself for the Cheveley Park Stakes.
"Bushranger worked this morning and the plan is that both he and the filly will go to Newmarket," Wachman said.
Thirteen entries remain in the Middle Park, including the Morny runner-up Gallagher and Marcus Tregonning's Molecamb Stakes-winner Finjaan.
"Bushranger will be the obvious danger if he runs but our horse has bags of speed and I'm pretty confident he will run a good race," Tregonning said.
The remnants of Tralee's August festival kicks off over three days this afternoon, although uncertainty still reigns over whether it will be the last fixture held at Ballybeggan Park or if racing will continue.
"It's still all up in the air," said Tralee chairman Paddy Barry yesterday.
"The shareholders will hold an agm soon and decide if they want to keep it open as a racecourse or if they want to leave it as a big field."
A property consortium's plans to redevelop the site were substantially turned down by An Bord Pleannala this summer, which encouraged hopes among many that racing could be saved at Tralee.
"The developers have a four-year option on the place so we will just get through these three days and see what happens," Barry added.
At the Curragh this afternoon, 179 runners are scheduled for the "industry day", and it provides John Murtagh and Dohasa with a quick chance to get things right.
On Sunday the 111-rated horse unseated Murtagh leaving the stalls in a Stakes race, and although today's race is a first attempt at seven furlongs since Dohasa's debut it looks an easier contest.
Papal Bull for Arc
PAPAL BULL is on course to bid for an elusive first Group One success in Sunday's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.
The five-year-old pushed Duke Of Marmalade all the way when a narrow runner-up in the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July. Papal Bull is a best-priced 25 to 1 for the Arc with Coral.
