O'Brien filly one to beat

AIDAN O'BRIEN angles for his first Italian Group One success with Family Tradition (Christy Roche) in the Gran Criterium (1m) …

AIDAN O'BRIEN angles for his first Italian Group One success with Family Tradition (Christy Roche) in the Gran Criterium (1m) at San Siro, Milan, tomorrow.

The Irish filly ran a good third to Ryafan when a 26 to 1 shot for the Group One Prix Marcel Boussac in Paris two weeks ago, and that form establishes her as the one to beat here.

Five British raiders tackle the mile prize and of these, John Dunlop's course and distance winner,

Hello (Fernando Jovine), and Peter Chapple Hyam's Panama City (John Reid), could prove most troublesome.

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