As Steve Mellish said on the RTV preview show, the horse is rated 107 but O’Brien is talking him up as if he is rated 120+.
O’Brien was already making excuses for him yesterday, even saying he might “run green”. On his fifth start?
It sounds to me like O’Brien knows he is not going to live up to the hype and sure enough he has been beaten by a horse rated 100.
It has got beyond tiresome with O’Brien now. If only someone in the racing media would grow a backbone and tell him.
Newbury today sums up why I have little interest in the Flat now. The latest Coolmore Champion the Wonder Horse beaten and the (admittedly impressive) Group 1 winner owned by someone who shouldn’t be allowed to be involved in the sport but is too powerful for the BHA to do anything about.