Everest In Sight For Caravaggio

Coolmore Australia's Tom Magnier has revealed that the inaugural A$10m The Everest has been a potential target for G1 Commonwealth Cup winner Caravaggio (Scat Daddy) for some time now. Following the 3-year-old's scintillating display over six furlongs at Ascot last Friday Magnier told Sky Sports Radio, “We took a slot in The Everest. We have had [Caravaggio] in mind for our slot for a while. Aidan [O'Brien] is very excited about him and says he is the fastest horse that he's trained.” The dual Group 1 winning Caravaggio is now unbeaten in six starts and with The Everest scheduled to take place at Randwick in October Aidan O'Brien put forward a potential route to the world's richest turf race. “The lads will talk about what to do, but you'd think about the [G1] July Cup in Newmarket first. We were thinking about something like that in the mid-summer and then give him a break and the lads have it in their heads about the Everest in Australia in the autumn. That's why we didn't want to be too hard on him now. He is only a three-year-old and it's a long way through a year,” O'Brien told the Irish Independant. Caravaggio is currently second favourite for The Everest behind the six-time Group 1 winning grey Chautauqua (Aus) (Encosta De Lago {Aus}).