'He looks the one for the Coventry' - Aidan O'Brien runs through his Royal Ascot team
The Ballydoyle maestro takes David Jennings through his team for next week
Aidan O'Brien will be the first trainer many look to when it comes to finding winners at Royal Ascot next week. And with good reason.
The master of Ballydoyle has been leading trainer at the meeting on 11 occasions and last year's six winners took him to a total of 81, just one behind Sir Michael Stoute as the most prolific in Royal Ascot history.
After a difficult weekend at Newmarket's Guineas meeting at the start of May, O'Brien worked his magic with Auguste Rodin in the Derby and now his other 2,000 Guineas flop, Little Big Bear, is set to head his Ascot team as a short-priced favourite for the Commonwealth Cup.
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- 'We're working back from the Gold Cup - he's a massive horse and lightly raced, so we hope there's more improvement to come'
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- 'He's bigger, stronger, definitely getting better - and he'll be a classy horse going back into handicaps'
- 'Our novice chasers are as good as anyone's in Britain - and this one is a proper horse'
- 'Having a winner at the Cheltenham Festival last season made a big difference - and this might be one for the same race'
- 'We're working back from the Gold Cup - he's a massive horse and lightly raced, so we hope there's more improvement to come'
- 'We're excited about him - we hope he's a Graded horse and we're working back from the Cheltenham Festival'