‘We’ve never had a horse where we don’t know where the limit is’
City Of Troy and Ryan Moore come home to win the Native Trail's Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket. Photograph: Nigel French/PA WireAidan O’Brien hailed City Of Troy as the best two-year-old he has trained following a sensational display in the Native Trail’s Dewhurst Stakes at Newmarket.
Testing conditions scuppered a planned National Stakes run last month, but the Curragh’s loss was Newmarket’s gain as City Of Troy blazed a trail down the Rowley Mile to ensure he heads into winter quarters as next year’s Classic favourite. “He’s an incredible horse really and thank God we ran him. I said to everyone he could get beat, he was entitled to get beat on this ground, but he just never gets tired the horse. I’ve never seen a horse who doesn’t get tired.
Moore was equally as impressed, admitting he felt only the ground or lengthy absence could beat his mount. “Coming into today, I couldn’t see how anything the race could beat him, the worry was the holding ground after that rain we had last night, and he’d been off since the July meeting.