The Lion In Winter - Horse Profile & Next Race Odds

Aidan O'Brien (27 October 2025): "He’s being aimed at the Breeders’ Cup Mile. We’ve been very happy with his last two runs, and he seems to have come out of his most recent run at Ascot very well. We’ve obviously asked a lot of him this year in terms of running him over different trips, but we’ve worked him out and a mile is what he wants. He’s sharpening up and getting more professional all the time. He’s breaking well and has pace, so the demands of this race will hopefully be ok for him."

Aidan O'Brien (21 March 2025): "He couldn’t have done much more than he did in his two runs last season. He was impressive in his maiden and then broke the juvenile track record in the Acomb Stakes at York. The form of the Acomb has worked out well since too. For a Sea The Stars from a middle-distance family to be doing that much in the middle part of his two-year-old year is obviously very exciting and would have you dreaming of what could happen this year. He had an away day at the Curragh earlier in the week and all went smoothly. We’ll get an idea of how much that has brought him along in the coming days and plans will soon start to come together with him, but he’s an obvious candidate for the 2000 Guineas. In terms of how far he’ll stay, looking at his pedigree you’d say he’ll surely stay a mile-and-a-half, but not too many with that profile of pedigree have the pace to do what he did as a two-year-old, so we won’t know until we know. Sure look, with a colt like him all you can say is that he’s very much in the mix for the 2000 Guineas and the Derby. We can’t wait to see him back on the track."