Montjeu firms for next Group 1

Montjeu sired a Group 1 double in Canada last weekend and he can claim another in Australia and England this Saturday.

The Coolmore champion chimed in with Sarah Lynx (Canadian International) and Miss Keller (E.P Taylor Stakes) to take his global Group 1 tally to 24 last Sunday.

Montjeu has Wall Street engaged in the G1 W S Cox Plate at Moonee Valley and the Kiwi champ is quoted at $81.  He wasn’t disgraced in the Toorak Hcp and, with D Beadman aboard, appeals as the best of the outsiders.

Coolmore colt Camelot looks a banker in the G1 Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday.  Rank and file punters took a lead from informed sources after the Montjeu colt firmed from $3.50 into $2.25 on Tuesday.  

Trainer Aidan O’Brien will be gunning for his sixth Racing Post Trophy (1600m) and, at first glance, it appeared Daddy Long Legs (Scat Daddy) would be the stable elect.

Daddy Long Legs is a last-start winner of the G2 Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket but he has drifted to $7.

Camelot (2c Montjeu – Tarfah by Kingmambo) hasn’t been seen since winning over 1600m on debut at Leopardstown in July.  He had been a 525,000gns buy out of the 2010 Tattersalls October yearling sale.

His dam Tarfah won a G3 at Newmarket and Listed events at Ascot and Kempton.  

Camelot had been installed the $17 favourite with most bookmakers for the 2012 English Derby on the strength of that Leopardstown debut.  Nevertheless, he owes that classic quote due to a lack of any other outstanding candidates rather than his exploits at the races.

That will change on Saturday if reports out of Ballydoyle are on the mark.  O’Brien last claimed the Racing Post Trophy in 2009 with St Nicholas Abbey who is also by Montjeu.

His previous winners were Saratoga Springs (1997), Aristotle (1999), High Chaparral (2001) and Brian Boru (2002).