Scorpion plans on hold

/ Editor / 02 June 2007 / Leave a Comment

Scorpion could be heading to the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot on June 21 but it is stablemate Yeats who heads the betting in the 2m 4f contest.

Aidan O'Brien's entire was the surprise winner of Friday's Coronation Cup at Epsom where he beat stablemate Septimus.

Plans are fluid about his next assignment, with the five-year-old holding engagements in the Hardwicke Stakes at the Royal Meeting and at the Curragh on June 30 for the Group Three Atheraces Curragh Cup.

The O'Brien team have made exactly the same entries for last season's Gold Cup winner Yeats with the Betfair market suggesting the recent Leopardstown winner is the stable number one.

Yeats can be backed at 2.16 to become the first horse since Royal Rebel to win back-to-back Gold Cups. Scorpion is available at 14.5 with Sergeant Cecil the clear second best in the market at 6.8