Returning to the scene of his finest hour on Sunday, Amo Racing's Phoenix Stakes hero Power Blue (Space Blues) duly regained the winning thread taking on his elders for the first time in The Curragh's G2 Minstrel Stakes.Handed some tough assignments over a mile this term, the powerhouse sprinter juvenile of 2025 who memorably upstaged True Love here in his Group 1 had run with credit to be fourth in the Irish 2,000 Guineas and St James's Palace and was 11-10 to make the most of this drop in class. Provided with a perfect lead from Audience (Iffraaj), the favourite was able to master that habitual front-runner a furlong out and draw away for a convincing 1 1/2-length success from Curragh specialist Big Gossey (Gutaifan) as Audience faded to third, half a length away.“We went a good, solid gallop but I never travelled early and he made tough work of it,” jockey Rossa Ryan said. “It's a big help that he's got plenty of gate speed and seven suits him, as they don't steady like they do at a mile and he stays rolling. When horses come behind him it drives him forward and once that happens he's away. He just does enough, he doesn't help you and I think the City Of York will be ideal–if they go a gallop like today he'll be bang there with a chance. He's one of those that could come back to six at Ascot on Champions Day when you would get slow ground, because he's tough and hardy.”Trainer Robson De Aguiar, who was completing a quickfire double having won the preceding maiden with the 50-1 shot Shi Yang, confirmed that the Ebor Festival's Group 1 over this trip is the immediate target with Keeneland also on the agenda in October. “He's fantastic, he won the first two-year-old maiden at The Curragh last year and has taken on the best,” he said.“He deserves this,” he added. “He can go anywhere from six to a mile, he's a pleasure to train. This is a good trip for him and seven furlongs at York will be the race for him. He's very lazy at home, like a pony, but he tries his best for you at the races. I'd say the Breeders' Cup Mile could be for him and maybe the QEII at Ascot as well, but York is next.”POWER BLUE Group Two success in the Glenroyal Hotel And Shoda Cafe Minstrel Stakes @curraghrace A quick double for Robson De Aguiar, @Rossaryan15 and @amoracingltd pic.twitter.com/cW60ysPnzr— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 19, 2026The post Breeders’ Cup Mile Target For Power Blue After Minstrel Win appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.