Minnie Hauk ‘leading the team’ for O’Brien in Breeders’ Cup

Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe runner-up Minnie Hauk is all set to lead Aidan O’Brien’s Breeders’ Cup team at Del Mar.

A triple Group One winner in the summer when she won the Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks, she just came up short against the boys in Paris when beaten by Daryz.

She lost little in defeat and having bounced out of the race in good form, O’Brien is keen to see her take on the colts and geldings again, with Found in 2015 proving to O’Brien it can be done.

Tarnawa and Enable are other fillies who have come out on top in the race in recent years.

The rest of O’Brien’s party is likely to be made up largely of juveniles, with Precise, True Love, Gstaad and Mission Central all among the pre-entries.

“Minnie Hauk is fine and she’s going to lead the team in the Turf, she’s running in that rather than the Filly & Mare (Turf), that’s the plan,” said O’Brien

“That will be interesting and exciting, won’t it, and we’ll see what will happen.

“I think we have eight going over, that’s all we have this year.”