Talking Horses: Just Wonderful races to impressive Rockfel success
The Aidan O’Brien runner was cut in the betting for next year’s 2,000 Guineas after a smooth victoryThere is Group One racing a few miles from Ryan Moore’s Newmarket home on Saturday, but he will be somewhere over the Atlantic as Ten Sovereigns, an odds-on favourite, goes to post for the Middle Park Stakes. The ride on Mendelssohn, the 18-length UAE Derby winner, in the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park is at the other end of Moore’s long commute, and as he settles into his first-class seat, Aidan O’Brien’s stable jockey will know that the yard is rediscovering its best form at just the right time.On the Saturday morning of the Cambridgeshire meeting last year, O’Brien had 18...