14:45 Leopardstown

Saturday 11 September 2021

All12:4013:1013:4014:1014:4515:1515:4516:20

Irish Champion Stakes (Group 1)

  • 3YO plus  |   Class 1  |   1m 2f  |   Good  |   4 Runners  |   Turf  |   Weighed In
  • Off time: 14:46  |   Winning time: 2m 11.19s
Odds by:
The word Sky in blue and Bet in white with a red background.
Cloth number
Live Odds
Odds
1
Patrick Sarsfield
50/1, 40/1
33/1
2
Tarnawa
5/2, 9/4, 5/2, 9/4, 5/2
9/4
3
Poetic Flare
7/2, 4/1, 7/2
4/1
4
St Mark's Basilica
5/6, 4/5
5/6
SP Book Percentage 108.26

Forecasts

St Mark's Basilica (5/6), Tarnawa (9/4), Poetic Flare (4/1), Patrick Sarsfield (33/1)

Verdict

Just the 4 runners but a belting renewal. ST MARK'S BASILICA coped very well with a small-field scenario when an impressive winner of the Eclipse and can land a fifth Group 1 success in a row. The Arc is presumably the main target for Tarnawa so it could be that the chief threat comes from leading miler Poetic Flare, whose pedigree provides plenty of hope that he'll be just as good over this trip.

  1. ST MARK'S BASILICA (FR)
  2. POETIC FLARE (IRE)
  3. TARNAWA (IRE)

Previous Winners

2020
Magical
Weight: 9-6  |Age: 5
J: Seamie Heffernan  |  T: A P O'Brien
9/2

Prize Money

1st: €580,000.002nd: €200,000.003rd: €100,000.004th: €50,000.005th: €30,000.006th: €20,000.007th: €10,000.00

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