RACING:JESSICA HARRRINGTON'S star two-year-old Pathfork will tackle the best in America on dirt when he lines up in the Breeders' Cup Juvenile at Churchill Downs in early November.

The unbeaten colt will bypass top European races such as the Dewhurst in order to try the dirt in Louisville on November 6th, a move that could indicate a Classic tilt on next year’s Kentucky Derby at the same track.

Harrington isn’t thinking that far ahead but confirmed the Breeders’ Cup plan after consulting with Pathfork’s American owners, Tommy and Bonnie Hamilton.

“It will depend on Pathfork continuing in good form and how he takes the trip to the US but we’re happy with him and the National Stakes doesn’t seem to have taken anything out of him,” said Harrington.

Pathfork is currently one of the ante-post favourites for the Newmarket 2,000 Guineas after winning all three of his starts at the Curragh including the Group Two Futurity Stakes and the Group One National Stakes.

European challengers have managed to win the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile in the past with Arazi scoring in 1990 and Aidan O’Brien’s Johannesburg beating the best Americans nine years ago at Belmont Park.

Godolphin’s Vale Of York won on Santa Anita’s all-weather surface last year.

In other news, Co Limerick trainer Charles Byrnes has decided not to appeal the €2,000 “non-trier” fine he sustained at Listowel on Saturday when his runner Pittoni finished a controversial fourth in the last race of the Harvest Festival.

Byrnes was found to have used the racecourse as a training ground.

Pittoni’s jockey Derek Fox was suspended for seven days and the horse was banned from racing for 42 days.