Having failed to put his best foot forward on soft ground in the Curragh's G1 Vincent O'Brien National Stakes two weeks ago, Aidan O'Brien nominee Haffner (Justify) regained the winning habit under more obliging conditions and provided his trainer with a record-equalling eighth edition of Saturday's G2 Tattersalls Online Royal Lodge Stakes at Newmarket.“He'd love a Breeders' Cup and around a bend over a mile would be very easy for him, but we'll see what the lads want to do,” O'Brien commented in the immediate aftermath.The TDN Rising Star and G3 Acomb winner was reined back to race fourth after occupying in a prominent second through the initial stages. Inching closer with three furlongs remaining, the 7-4 pick was ridden along to launch his challenge approaching the final furlong and quickened smartly up the rising ground to defeat the hitherto undefeated Burning Up (Too Darn Hot) by 1 1/4 lengths in ultimately comfortable fashion.Andrew Balding trainee Quicken Away (Frankel) fared best of the remainder and was the same margin back in third. Pedigree NotesHaffner is the second of four foals and one of two scorers out of the stakes-placed Earth Strike (Zoffany), herself kin to five black-type performers headed by multiple Group 1-winning sire Order Of St George (Galileo) and the Group/Grade 3-winning duo Angel Terrace (Ghostzapper) and Asperity (War Chant).The winner, whose third dam is dual Grade I-winning US champion Storm Song, is full to a weanling filly and half to a yearling filly by Not This Time. The latter was withdrawn from last month's Fasig-Tipton Saratoga Select Yearling sale. Haffner wins the G2 @Tattersalls1766 Online Royal Lodge Stakes pic.twitter.com/8jyKp8dgue— Newmarket Racecourses (@NewmarketRace) September 26, 2026The post Record-Equalling Eighth Royal Lodge For Aidan O’Brien As Haffner Delivers appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions.