The Yorkshire Oaks may prove a tactical affair with only four runners lining up and two from the Aidan O’Brien yardJohn Gosden is concerned about a potentially tactical race after only four runners were declared for the Yorkshire Oaks on Thursday, expected to be the final race in
Britain for his star mare Enable. The five-year-old is long odds-on with bookmakers to land the prize on her way to
Paris in October, where she will attempt to become the first horse to win the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe for a third time.
“The smaller the field, the stranger the race can often be,” said Gosden, who has provided one of Enable’s three rivals in Lah Ti Dar. The other two runners are trained by Aidan O’Brien, notably Magical, supplemented into the race last week at a cost of £30,000. Completing the field is South Sea Pearl, only eighth in a French Group Two race at the weekend.