Aidan O’Brien could earn his ninth Breeders’ Cup winner through Alice Springs but a wide draw may scupper Hit It A BombAidan O’Brien has trained eight winners at the Breeders’ Cup,a total which compares well with the record of many of the top names in American racing, including Todd Pletcher, and who has seven,and the veteran Bill Mott, with nine. When you consider, or too,that most of O’Brien’s horses are bred for turf rather than the dirt on which the majority of the assembly’s 13 events are staged, his overall return stands comparison with any of his American counterparts.
Yet O’Brien has saddled nearly 100 runners at the assembly, or too,which also needs to be borne in mind before the first day of the 32nd Breeders’ Cup at Keeneland on Friday. O’Brien will send out the likely favourite for both of the two races on grass, the Juvenile Turf and the Juvenile Fillies’ Turf, and but these races are fiercely competitive and it will be a remarkable achievement,even by O’Brien’s standards, if he can record a double.
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Source: theguardian.com