Bradsell, Believing Meet Again in Flying Five Stakes

Two high-class Breeders' Cup Challenge Series: Win and You're In races take place at The Curragh Sept. 15 on the second day of the Irish Champions Festival.

The 1-2 finishers from the Aug. 23 Nunthorpe Stakes (G1) will face off once again, as Victorious Racing's Bradsell  and Highclere Racing's Believing  are among 18 entered for the Flying Five Stakes (G1). The winner will gain an automatic berth into the $1 million Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint (G1T) through the Breeders' Cup Challenge Series.

The winner of the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1), the card's second Win and You're In race, will earn an automatic position into the $1 million Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies' Turf (G1T).

The Breeders' Cup Challenge Series is an international series of 82 graded/group stakes races whose winners receive automatic starting positions and fees paid into a corresponding race of the Breeders' Cup World Championships, scheduled to be held at Del Mar Nov. 1-2.

Bradsell dominated the York sprint showpiece on the third day of the Ebor Festival to earn his berth in the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, having returned from an 11-month injury absence to win a listed race in France less than three weeks earlier. The son of Tasleet  now heads to The Curragh, a track he has failed to win at in two career starts, but his trainer Archie Watson is just thrilled to have him back racing again after his injury in the spring.

Watson said: "It's pretty incredible what he's achieved. A lot of hard work has gone into this horse. He fractured a cannon bone and underwent surgery in early February but passed every stage of his rehabilitation with flying colors. All being well on Sunday, we'll head to Paris for the Abbaye and then the Breeders' Cup."

The Flying Five Stakes has been a contest in which British yards have fared well recently, winning six of the last 10 renewals, and George Boughey is hoping for another successful trip to Ireland with his consistent 4-year-old filly Believing. The daughter of Mehmas  has had a busy summer campaign, running six times since the start of June, and failing to finish out of the first four in that period. Her only victory came over this course and distance in the Sapphire Stakes (G2) July 20.

Boughey said: "It has been the plan for a while—it is three weeks since York, and she has been backing up pretty good. It is great to have a real rock star mare that takes her connections to all the big meetings. She keeps bouncing out of races as well as she ever has, so long may it continue."

British sprinters make up more than half the 18-strong field for this year's renewal of the Flying Five Stakes and as well as Bradsell and Believing, Hambleton Racing's Washington Heights ; Sheikh Rashid Dalmook Al Maktoum's Beautiful Diamond , whose form ties in closely with Believing; and the D R J King-owned Vadream  are also among the declarations for this €400,000 group 1 showpiece.

Charlie Bit Me Syndicate's Moss Tucker  sprung a surprise to win last year's renewal and aims to become the first horse since Benbaun in 2007 to win back-to-back editions of this race.

Amo Racing's Bucanero Fuerte  posted a respectable comeback run when sixth in the Sprint Cup Stakes (G1) last weekend, and reappears quickly.

Unbeaten Ballydoyle Duo Among Five Declared for Moyglare

The exciting Derrick Smith, Mrs. John Magnier, and Michael Tabor-owned pair Bedtime Story  and Lake Victoria  will face off against each other in a high-class renewal of the Moyglare Stud Stakes (G1).

The Frankel   fillies are both unbeaten group winners, with Bedtime Story having won on all four starts, while Lake Victoria followed up her debut success with a win in the Sweet Solera Stakes (G3) last time. The pair will look to add to Aidan O'Brien's impeccable record in this seven-furlong group 1.

O'Brien said: "Bedtime Story is a big high cruiser and stays very well. We've been delighted with her two runs since Royal Ascot. We've just been careful in educating her since then."

He added: "Lake Victoria had a lovely run in Newmarket, and we've been happy with her since then. For a Frankel filly she has a lot of speed, and you could probably go back in trip with her if you had to. She's made like a big, strong sprinter."

Connections of the unbeaten pair are also represented by likely pacemaker Exactly . The sole British challenger in the lineup is the Al Shaqab Racing-owned Simmering, who relished the step up to seven furlongs when impressively landing the Prix du Calvados (G2) by three lengths for Ollie Sangster on her most recent start.

Completing the field is Juddmonte's Red Letter , who was denied by the barest of margins by Lake Victoria on debut but has since improved from that to shed her maiden impressively.