Didn't back it but thank fek he's now got that record. Maybe they will stop banging on about it now
Great achievement of course, but it hardly matches up to discovering penicillin or inventing the potato!
Was it not Gary Lineker that invented the potato whilst out on his Raleigh bike delivering papers in Leicester?
Bravo Aidan, a tremendous achievement. Saxon Warrior gave a really gutsy performance over a distance that is patently his minimum one, surely?
I thought that
Roaring Lion threw the race away. When he hit the front he hung to the left and stopped, allowing Moore to do one of his jobs on the favourite to get up close home.
Well done Aiden O'Brien, an amazing achievement that will probably never be beaten. Fully deserved
Has the excessive fawning media adulation of Aidan O’Brien died down yet?
What he has achieved is largely a statistical aberration. Did Bobby Frankel run as many horses in as many races to win 25 Group 1 events? I suspect not but I do not have the results at hand to prove it. He probably had two or three good horses that won multiple times supplemented by some others picking up the odd one or two.
This year has been the epitome of mediocrity on the flat in Europe, including most of the inmates at Ballydoyle. So how do you go about winning 26 Group 1 races? Simple – run several horses in virtually every race and play the numbers game because you have been supplied with the blue-bloods of European racing by Coolmore.
In The Derby, 6 of the 18 runners were from Ballydoyle; in the Irish Derby, 5 of the 9 were his and on both occasions Moore was on the wrong one. In The St Leger, 4 of the 9 were supplied by O’Brien but at least Moore got it right on Town Moor.
Churchill won a 10-runner 2000 Guineas and a 6-runner Irish 2000 Guineas where both fields included 3 Ballydoyle runners.
Winter won a 14-runner 1000 Guineas beating two stablemates, an 8-runner Irish equivalent beating three stablemates and a 7-runner Coronation Stakes beating two stablemates. Four of the ten in the Matron Stakes came from Ballydoyle when
Hydrangea pipped
Winter. The only horse I could find that had won 2 Group 1s where it was the only O’Brien runner was
Roly Poly – the Falmouth Stakes and the Prix Rothschild.
For years, O’Brien has farmed most of the Irish pattern races as the likes of Weld and Oxx get the Aga Khan’s second strings so Irish flat racing is uncompetitive at the top level. In the Moyglare, half the 8-runner field was supplied by O’Brien and he had the first three home. In many of the two year old races, O’Brien wins if Bolger does not have a good juvenile.
It also has to be said there are a lot more Group 1 races now than there were in 2003, so opportunity has increased.
) howver he went in my tracker lto after he did extremely well finishing 4th when hanging like a dog but take that out he finished like rocket inside the final furlong which certainly took the eye. Was crying out for headgear which he gets tomorrow and that sjos straighten him up he defiantlely has taken and will be extremely hard to beat!
