VERDICT

This looks a hot renewal of this Group 1 prize, which often produces a high-class winner Luxembourg disappointed on reappearance behind Layfayette and Piz Badile over this course and distance, but may be able to reverse the form with that start behind him. It could be a similar scenario with the form of the Group 1 Prix Ganay, run last month at Longchamp, where Bay Bridge finished over a length ahead of VADENI Jean-Claude Rouget’s colt was caught a bit short of room in the closing stages and last season’s Arc runner-up may be able to get the better of Bay Bridge with a clearer passage

Curragh Comment

BAY BRIDGE was very impressive when seeing off 2021 Epsom Derby and King George hero Adayar in the Champion Stakes at Ascot, with the previously-unbeaten Baaeed only fourth. Sir Michael Stoute’s five-year-old made a perfectly satisfactory reappearance when third in the Prix Ganay and looks the one to beat. Vadeni was a place behind him at Longchamp, but has been supplemented for this and took the Prix du Jockey Club and Eclipse last season before a cracking second in the Arc. Luxembourg had the French raider back in third when triumphant in the Irish Champion Stakes and will step forward from his comeback fifth in the Mooresbridge.

WIN: BAY BRIDGE

DANGER: Vadeni