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Irish Champion Stakes: George Scott Eyes €75,000 Supplement For Wimbledon Hawkeye
Published 03:09 18 Aug 2026 BST
Updated 19:47 17 Aug 2026 BST
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George Scott is weighing a €75,000 cheque to get Wimbledon Hawkeye into the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown next month, convinced the four-year-old is about to hit the best form of his life. The colt is not among the entries for the Group 1 at the Irish Champions Festival, so getting him in means paying to supplement.
Why the Irish Champion Stakes suits Wimbledon Hawkeye
The Kameko colt won the Group Three Prix Gontaut-Biron at Deauville on Saturday, only his second start for Scott after being transferred from James Owen in early July by new owners Victorious Forever. Two runs in, his trainer is already looking at the very top table.
Scott intends to use the luxury of waiting. The supplementary entry can be left until five or six days out, letting him see how the field shapes up — and, as he put it, how Aidan O’Brien is “shuffling the pack”. The Irish Champions Festival returns in September, a few weeks on from the Galway Races.
If the race looks open, they take their chance at Leopardstown. If it looks very deep, the plan switches to the Group 3 Prix du Prince d’Orange at ParisLongchamp on 13 September, as preparation for going back there on Arc weekend, RTÉ Sport reports.
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