Camelot Colt Wins G1 Irish Derby

Tara Madgwick - Monday July 1

The Camelot x Dansili nick produced it’s second Group I winner of the weekend when quality colt Los Angeles won the Group I Irish Derby following on from Bluestocking winning the Group I Pretty Polly Stakes.

Read about Bluestocking here.

Trained by Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Los Angeles was third at his previous start in the Epson Derby behind his stablemate City of Troy with Ambiente Friendly in third place.

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While City of Troy sat this dance out, Ambiente Friendly took his place at the Curragh and started favourite, but Los Angeles produced a tough staying effort under pressure to turn the tables and win by three-quarters of e length over Galiway colt Sunway with the favourite in third place.

“He’s a big, hardy horse. He looks like he was a baby, but he is a G1 winner at two as well. Los Angeles is progressing, definitely, and we're really looking forward to him. Obviously he's by Camelot so he has that class, so he can quicken,” said Aidan O’Brien.

“Ryan said he had a lot more class than he expected and he quickened very well when he got there. We came here thinking that he was going to turn into a Leger horse, but Ryan said he has way more class than that.”

A homebred for the Coolmore partners, Los Angeles has four wins and a third from just five starts. He has two full Group placed siblings in Hector de Maris and Be Happy and is from an unraced half-sister to Group III winner Impulsif. His third dam Allez Les Trois produced Group I winner Anabaa Blue and is a half-sister to Arc winning blue hen Urban Sea.

Los Angeles and Bluestocking are bred the same way being by Camelot from a daughter of Dansili with the nick producing 23 winners from 31 starters (74.2% winner to runner) and four stakes-winners so 13% SW to runner.

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