Ryan Moore believes Vadeni has every right to be favourite for the Royal Bahrain Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown, but expects his mount Luxembourg to improve leaps and bounds for a comeback run last month.
A Group One winner at two, Luxembourg ran a race full of promise when third in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket but picked up a problem which kept him off the track for over three months.
While he returned with a victory in the Royal Whip Stakes, he only scrambled home by a neck from Insinuendo but Moore expects him to prove a different proposition this weekend.
