Kingsbarns likely to miss Derby bid
Hopes of Aidan O'Brien's Kingsbarns making it to the Investec Derby at Epsom on 1 June appear to be receding.
Hopes of Aidan O'Brien's Kingsbarns making it to the Investec Derby at Epsom on 1 June appear to be receding.
Aidan O'Brien concedes he is "fighting time" in his bid to get Kingsbarns to the Investec Derby.
Kingsbarns and Cristoforo Colombo, Aidan O'Brien's two big hopes for the Qipco 2000 Guineas, may have their first runs of the season in the Newmarket Classic.
Kingsbarns staked his claim for Classic glory in 2013 with a clear-cut victory in the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster.
Aidan O'Brien relies solely on the supplemented Kingsbarns in Saturday's Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster, the final Group One of the British Flat season.
Kingsbarns was backed as if defeat was out of the question prior to his debut in Navan's Irish Stallion Farms EBF (C&G) Maiden and those who took the 4/11 never had to worry.
South African Branden Grace, three times a winner this season, equalled the European Tour record with a 12-under-par 60 at Kingsbarns when the Dunhill Links Championship.
Athlone's Colm Moriarty has qualfied for the British Open in a fortnight's time at St Andrews after leading the qualifiers on 7 under par after 36 holes at Kingsbarns.
The third round of the Dunhill Links Championship was abandoned without a shot being played today as gale-force winds swept over the three hosting courses.
Five birdies in the last six holes at Kingsbarns on Thursday boosted Padraig Harrington's European order of merit hopes, taking him to within three strokes of Dunhill Links Championship leaders Soren Hansen and Ross Fisher.
The inaugural Alfred Dunhill Links Championship is almost certain to finish on Monday after fog and rain interrupted Saturday's third round.
South African Ernie Els just missed out by a single stroke on the course record at Carnoustie today just hours after he feared he would fail to break 80 in his opening round of the Dunhill Links Pro-Am tournament.