Champion Trainer Aidan O'Brien is satisfied with the ground conditions at the Curragh ahead of his Australia s bid to win the Irish Derby at 5.30pm.

O'Brien stated “it is beautiful, fast ground and the kind we have been hoping for every year (for the Derby) but haven't got. A few years we've been running on National Hunt ground.

“Geoffrey Chaucer gave a few small coughs and while it's probably nothing, there was no point taking a chance.”

By Thomas Weekes, quotes from Gary Carson