Aidan O’Brien faces trial of endurance

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Aidan O’Brien faces trial of endurance. Form is temporary, class is permanent is a regular incantation which is usually reserved for the losers rather than winners.

Aidan O’Brien has often made a slow start to the season but that has not prevented him from being in the winner’s enclosure when the first major prizes of the season were being handed out. In 2005 O’Brien travelled to the Guineas meeting at Newmarket having saddled 13 favourites in opening weeks of that season, of which 12 had been beaten. He returned to his Ballydoyle yard with both of the Classics won by Footstepsinthesand and Virginia Waters.

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