Racing: Lanigan plans Leger bid with Main Sequence after unlucky Paris show

Monday 16 July 2012

Main Sequence has emerged as a possible rival to Camelot in the St Leger at Doncaster following his unlucky run in the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp at the weekend.

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David Lanigan's colt finished second behind Aidan O'Brien's colt in the Epsom Derby and could try to prevent the 2000 Guineas and Irish Derby hero capturing the Triple Crown in the oldest classic in the world on September 15.

While Camelot's stable companion Imperial Monarch made most of the running to claim the French Group 1 over a mile and a half, Main Sequence could not get a clear passage. Wherever jockey Ted Durcan tried to go, he was blocked and Main Sequence had to settle for fourth place in Paris, a length and a half behind the Irish-trained winner.Lanigan has taken defeat on the chin and is looking for positives to take from the race. "He's come out of the race fine," said the trainer. "That kind of thing can happen and it's happened to a lot more people than you can name."It was just one of those things. They probably didn't go at a great enough pace early on, which can generate its own problems at that stage of the race. The important thing is he has improved since the Derby and was unlucky in his run in France, but mentally he's grown up since Epsom."We still know we've got a nice horse for the future. He's got one or two options. It will just take a day or two to digest things and then I'll talk to the owners."It was frustrating but that's life and we live to fight another day. The only positive thing we learned was that he will stay the mile and six of the St Leger. The trip wouldn't be a problem to him."It gives us a lot more options. Anything from a mile and a half, I'd be reluctant to bring him back to a mile and a quarter. There's a lot of things – the Leger, the Breeders' Cup and the Prix Niel – and we have to think about next year."Elsewhere, drying ground at Ayr should have Red Paladin breaking his duck in the Open Lost Boys Offer At BetVictor.com Median Auction Maiden Stakes. A promising third at York on his debut, he should have won at Hamilton but got tired.*Scottish trainer Jim Goldie is looking forward to running Hawkeyethenoo in the Summer Double International at Ascot on Saturday after his sprinter finished fifth in the July Cup at Newmarket on Saturday. It was his stable star's first run in a Group 1 and he showed he wasn't out of place in the race won by Mayson.Goldie said: "He seems grand. The plan is to try to run him next week at Ascot. He loves it there. I don't think the July Cup took too much out of him and, hopefully, he should run well. I didn't really expect to be running on heavy ground at Newmarket on the July course."

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