Aidan O’Brien has won the Irish Champion Stakes for the past four seasons and a record 11 times in all, but his main contenders for this year’s renewal at Leopardstown on Saturday both have questions to answer on their recent form and the value may lie elsewhere.
Auguste Rodin has won the Derby and Irish Derby on two of his four starts this year but has been bitterly disappointing on the other two, while Luxembourg – a narrow winner of this race 12 months ago – has struggled to reach a similar level of form since.
