Auguste Rodin and Ryan Moore winning the Irish Champion Chase ahead of Luxembourg ridden by Seamie Heffernan. Photograph: Bryan Keane/Inpho
If the $12 million World Cup on dirt is the most valuable contest of Saturday’s Meydan action worth $30.5 million in all, it is the 1½ mile contest on turf that’s likely to reverberate most around the world. Ushba Tessoro is favourite to defend the dirt title, and it is Liberty Island, runner-up to Equinox in November’s Japan Cup, who will attempt to succeed her old rival as the Sheema winner.
Last year’s dual-Derby, Irish Champion Stakes, and Breeders Cup champion will try to emulate St Nicholas Abbey who landed the Sheema Classic for O’Brien in 2013. He is joined in Saturday’s race by stable companion, Point Lonsdale.
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