City Of Troy's next target discussed following Aidan O'Brien Curragh double

A trip to the Curragh or Sandown look to be the options for City Of Troy’s eagerly-awaited next racecourse outing.
Plans for Aidan O’Brien’s brilliant Betfred Derby winner have yet to be finalised by the Coolmore partners, but the Dubai Duty Free Irish Derby or the Coral-Eclipse appear to be the races in the frame.
Beyond that, the Travers Stakes on dirt at Saratoga in August has not been ruled out.
Speaking at the Curragh on Wednesday evening, O’Brien said: “I’m still waiting on the lads, they are still dwelling over it. Obviously it’s between here and Sandown, I’d imagine.
“We’ve three months to Saratoga if he was to go there, they are the three races. When they decide what to do we’ll go with the plan. Hopefully in the next week we’ll know.
“I don’t think it (trip) matters to him really.”
In third at Epsom was previously unbeaten stablemate Los Angeles, who lost little in defeat.
O’Brien added: “Where Los Angeles goes will all depend on City Of Troy. He’s a big, hardy fella and he’ll progress, too. He ran a great race.”
Tunbridge Wells entered the Royal Ascot reckoning with a taking display at the
Curragh.
Beaten three lengths on debut at Navan last month, Aidan O’Brien’s son of No Nay Never was a much more polished performer when sent off the 4-11 favourite in the Holden Plant Rentals Irish EBF Race.
Away well and always up with the pace, he showed a professional attitude when asked to quicken to win his race by Ryan Moore, keeping on strongly to score by two and three-quarter lengths.
A brother to dual Group One scorer Blackbeard, he could now follow in his sibling’s footsteps and tackle the Coventry Stakes at the Royal meeting, with Paddy Power making the youngster 25-1 from 33s for that two-year-old event later this month.
“We’re delighted with him, he’s a baby still. He’ll go into the Ascot picture and if he doesn’t go there he’ll come back here for the Railway,” said O’Brien.
“He’ll have no problem staying further in time, but he’s green and babyish still.”
There was an all O’Brien finish to the mile-and-a-half Sky Bet Club Fillies Maiden, where the Wayne Lordan-ridden Grateful (13-2) hunted down the 4-6 favourite and stablemate Mother Nature in the shadow of the post.
Returning after an absence of 298 days, the winner holds an entry in the Juddmonte Irish Oaks over the same course and distance next month.
O’Brien said: “She’s by Galileo and has an unbelievable pedigree.
“She got little setback last year and we didn’t get to run her. She just took a bit of time to come and Wayne said there is a lot to come from her.
“We’ll let her step up and progress away and he said she’d be very happy to step back in trip. It’s all positive.”
On the runner-up Mother Nature, he added: “When she got left by herself she was very green. Ryan said she was pricking her ears going to the line.
“She was like that in Dundalk and I’d say she’ll take a few runs.”
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