MAGNA STARS FOR O’BRIEN
continue his association with Magna Grecia in 2019.
“That’s the plan at the minute is to ride,” he added.
Two of the Ballydoyle stable’s previous winners, High Chaparral and Camelot, went on to land the Derby the following summer, but, as a son of the sprinter Invincible Spirit, Magna Grecia is likely to be kept at shorter distances, starting with the 2000 Guineas next spring.
“We think a mile will be his thing,” said O’brien snr, “but he’s out of a Galileo mare, which gives him a chance.”
WINX made history as the Australian supermare gained a record fourth triumph in the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, easily beating Godolphin’s Benbatl by two lengths.