By Tom Frary
Aidan O'Brien will have some of his big guns in action at the weekend, with both Benvenuto Cellini (Frankel) and Hawk Mountain (Wootton Bassett) headlining the cast for Doncaster's G1 William Hill Futurity Trophy and Puerto Rico (Wootton Bassett) supplemented for Sunday's G1 Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.
While the impressive G2 Champions Juvenile winner Benvenuto Cellini was initially thought the main hope for Doncaster, O'Brien has added spice by confirming the Beresford winner Hawk Mountain as well as Lambourn's half-brother Action (Frankel).
Completing the six-strong line-up for the two-year-old Group 1 climax on Town Moor are Juddmonte's exciting Item (Frankel), another son of Frankel in Prince Faisal's Oxagon from the Gosdens and outsider Rochfortbridge (Mehmas) from the Adrian Keatley stable.
Saint-Cloud's Sunday card is taking shape, with the confirmation stage set for Friday but the addition of the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere and Champagne winner Puerto Rico brings star quality to the Criterium International at a mile. The other Group 1 for the juveniles is the Criterium de Saint-Cloud, where Ballydoyle could be represented by the recent Zetland Stakes winner Pierre Bonnard (Camelot) and/or Eyrefield Stakes winner Christmas Day (Camelot) on a weekend when next year's 2,000 Guineas and Derby markets will see big shifts.
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