Kew Gardens lined up for Irish St Leger

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Kew Gardens lined up for Irish St Leger

Kew Gardens is being lined up for the Irish St Leger at the Curragh in September after being ruled out of the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained four-year-old won the St Leger 12 months ago and was being lined up for the Gold Cup on Thursday on the back of successive second-place finishes on his seasonal return in the Ormonde Stakes at Chester and Coronation Cup at Epsom on May 31.

However, Kew Gardens has a slight injury issue which has prompted O’Brien to withdraw the son of Galileo from the Group One encounter this week.

He said: ‘Kew Gardens had a little bit of a setback, so that is why he is not in the Gold Cup.

‘We will go gently with him for two or three weeks, and see how he comes out of it.

It is a small muscular thing, and hopefully it will heal itself quickly.

‘I would have thought races like the Irish St Leger and races like that will be open to him.

It wasn’t ideal – but these things happen.’

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