Trainer Richard Fahey will bid to put the icing on an already superb season when he saddles his first Breeders' Cup runner later this month. Fahey has entered his classy Godolphin owned 2-year-old Birchwood (Ire) (Dark Angel {Ire}) in the GI Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf and the colt will bring smart form to the event. He has kept high company since winning the G2 Bet365 Superlative S. at Newmarket in July. He followed that with a luckless fifth in the G2 Qatar Vintage S. at Goodwood, two lengths behind subsequent G1 Qatar Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere third Galileo Gold (GB) (Paco Boy {Ire}). Most recently, Birchwood posted a respectable third to probably Europe's best 2-year-old colt Air Force Blue (War Front) in the G1 Goffs Vincent O'Brien National S. at The Curragh Sept 13. Fahey, who trains in Malton in Yorkshire, has trained 215 winners in Britain this season, more than any other trainer in the UK and his runners have amassed over £3.6m in prize-money.
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