Aidan O'Brien

realise he'd been mentioned a little bit before yeah he was an eye catch for me as well you know a nicely bred horse and again possibly a Crystal Ocean horse might be better on better ground but yeah the breeding even in Crystal Ocean Stowaway it sounds like nice jumping blood there yeah he was an eye catcher alright but yeah Wexford those few crazy things at Wexford as well

Yeah, with Paul Nolan having a one, two, three, four, I thought Gerry Hannan was going to give it that kind of a Aidan O'Brien, eat your heart out.

Paul Nolan is in the first four in the race.

It was just as

Doncaster had the Group 1 Futurity Trophy on Saturday.

St. Clair had three Group 1s on Sunday.

Aidan O'Brien won three of...

The four group ones.

But I just, I don't really see that happening here.

Well, there wasn't strength and depth from the O'Brien team last year against that.

Never mind the fact that there's going to be Folsom Blues, a Group 1 winner, up against them as well.

So it's going to be a really interesting race.

Getting out of the gate, not something that all the Euros do well, going five and a half, going the sprint distance, or in general on the grass, but especially going five and a half.

If you are a quarter step, a half step, a full step slow out of the gate, that's going to cost you a lot.

Now, obviously, the Euro trainers, Aiden O'Brien, all the others that come over for a race like this, they've adapted to that style, and we don't see that as prevalent, but still, some of these US horses still have a little bit of that advantage.

I do think that they're going to go fast early, and for me, the way Brickyard Bell has finished those races has been really, really visually impressive.

big job right

she did yes yes with the jockey club so we're super proud of her and um we're being flagged to come across if you'd like to walk with us yeah

i'm walking with you So we're going to walk across the track now.

We've got to make sure we do as we're told.

What does being a part of this event signify for you?

I'm sure it's unbelievable.

It's where every jockey, trainer, owner in the world wants to be.

So, yeah, it's just the magnitude of this event is off the scale.

I

know he was riding for Aidan O'Brien but he and he was one of the first jockeys Irish based jockeys that turned the tide for Irish jockeys.

He got rides on English horses.

they brought him from Ireland to England to ride.

We heard from Dylan on Friday.

He then promptly went and won the William Hill Futurity Group One at Doncaster for Aidan O'Brien, who for good measure won one of the Criteria Grands.

at Saint-Cloud with drumbeat and then took the fourth of five French classics that he's taken this season with Queenstown in the pre-Royal Oaks.

So it was a pretty good weekend for Bally Doyle, even if not in quite the manner that a lot of people had anticipated.

Yeah, I think that's right.

Just going back to the William Hill Futurity, remember Noble Exhibit was the 11-8 favourite for that race for Aidan O'Brien.

He finished third.

Giant Sequoia, who is an impressive looking horse.

Dan Skelton went past a million pounds on the day the clocks went back.

Andrew Boulding needs £200,000 from somewhere to overhaul Aidan O'Brien in the flat trainers championship.

And Constitution Hill might be on his travels again, but to where? Welcome to the front page.

Jump Racing is back at Cheltenham and the flat season is not quite done yet.

It's

funny how different the attitude.

I mean, Aidan O'Brien has never had a runner in Britain in December.

And I don't think even if Andrew Bolden was really going for it, that he would sort of change that habit, to be honest.

Of course, Kiri Ma, an accomplished jumps jockey.

And of course, Aidan O'Brien came from the jumps scene as well.

So something about these... people and these trainers around the jumpers their ability horses very very fit while keeping them sound really has a nice crossover to thoroughbred flat training as well as it does jumps training so a little bit of insight there for you too finally the last thing i'd like to say about mr peters is obviously a guy that controls things all the way through you know he's a bit like his own breeding and racing operation like a godolphin where they're just trying to get every percentage right and i think that is where you know these organizations like the judmonts and the agakans etc just have such an advantage knowing families breeding to them to really accentuate the positives and negate the negatives whether it be temperament or soundness etc and then from every stage of their production to a racehorse just controlling it through raising them how they raise them where they're broken in he obviously is a person that's very keen on the middle distance races and he definitely leans that way in terms of the way he breeds And obviously you don't see many two-year-olds start for Mr. Peters.

But he's also a guy that with his trainers, he almost has a set program and he has ideas on what he expects in terms of work and fitness.