International runners pointed to the BC

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EXCELLENT ART is on schedule to join Arc hero Dylan Thomas on Breeders' Cup duty on October 27, with trainer Aidan O'Brien on Wednesday indicating that his plans for the Monmouth Park extravaganza are likely to centre on the pair.

O'Brien said: “It is looking as if we will have two runners at the Breeders Cup - Dylan Thomas in the Turf and Excellent Art in the Mile. Both horses came out of their recent races in good form.

“We haven't finalised plans just yet but they might be our only runners at the meeting. At this stage it looks as if we might not have a two-year-old runner.”

Dylan Thomas brought his Group 1 haul to six at Longchamp on Sunday and will be attempting to give O'Brien his third win in the Turf, which he won with High Chaparral in 2002 and again a year later when the same horse dead-heated with Johar at Santa Anita.

Excellent Art, the St James's Palace Stakes winner, went on to be a fast finishing second behind Ramonti in the Sussex Stakes and last time out was beaten half a length by the Godolphin star in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot last month.

William Hill make Excellent Art a 5-1 second favourite for the Mile behind stablemate and Champion Stakes-bound George Washington, who is 7-2 joint favourite with Nobiz Like Shobiz.