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I can’t really tell what’s wrong at Ballydoyle so far for the season.
The two-year olds seem to need more time which is not worrying and he has yet to send out his top prospects, but his (better) three-year olds are running no sort of race in any of the British or French Classics.Somehow he still managed to send the six right horses to GB last week. From his five runners at Chester and one at Lingfield he had three winners, two seconds and a third place. Now that doesn’t seem too bad, does it?
On the other hand none of his York runners this week looked like a real winning threat and I’m not sure whether they’re 2-3 weeks behind with their work. Or maybe, they just don’t have a proper bunch of three-year old this season.
Broome should run a decent tomorrow as he’s already had two races this season.
Just as an aside – and this isn’t a dig at ERL, who starts lots of interesting, challenging, threads – why do so many spell his name “Aiden” when it’s “Aidan?”
Is this how Irish media spell it, or an honest error in O’Brien’s case because it is indeed how the name is registered at birth and spelt in some instances?
The pedant in me has often wondered.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Good point, Ian. In the 90s I had no doubt Aidan was the correct spelling. In the past ten years or so, I’ve seen lots of people spelling him Aiden.
Everytime I write something about him, I have to make a decision: Do I go for the A or for the E.
But anyway, even Aidan has a stable of pretty moderate three-year olds so far.Aidan’s stable will fire when the time is right..
Unusual for him to have a complete wipeout in the guineas but I can see fair enough reasoning/factors why that happenedGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
“In the past ten years or so, I’ve seen lots of people spelling him Aiden.”
Me too – it’s in more recent years I’ve seen it written with an “E.”
Thanks for the reply.
I certainly fear for the yard’s Epsom Classic arrangements, especially on Derby Day.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I’d say the reason to why people put the e instead of the i is because that’s how they think its spelt.
or because phones and other devices change the words for you “Auto Correct”
The amount of times I’ve read back on a post or thread later on and seen something I didn’t write because of auto correct
For example I wrote only the other week that I thought that Marhaba-ya-Sanafi would win the French Guineas because his trainer Mr Schutz is a genius and when I looked back it had auto corrected to Isaac Shelby and Brian Meehan..
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I see the E instead of the A not the I, Nathan.
I’ve never seen it spelt Aedan, or even Aeden.
That would be even more confusing!
Aidan or Aiden, that is the question.
Whether tis….
PS: Unlucky on the autocorrect at Longchamp there – I hear you had a similar issue when placing the actual bet.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Of course, that’s what I meant instead of the a
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The man who invented auto correct died last week.
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Effing brilliant!
I’d never heard that one before and I’m still chortling like a good’un.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Another question which I would like to throw into the pot is about the stables policy?
In the past I’ve always regarded them as ‘producing’ stallions at a fairly regular rate thus the turnover of top horses was at a much higher rate than in the past few years.Is it my imagination or are connections holding onto horses for longer?
good luck to allOn the official Horse Racing Ireland site, he’s listed as Aidan, which should be definitive as they issue his licence to train.
He never offered it as an excuse for his Guineas runners at Newmarket but others are citing the change of normal travel arrangements for their poor running. These are hardly seasoned travellers so how were they affected, what difference would it have made to them.
The more I know the less I understand.
Unless you have a real bad experience travelling over flight wise I can’t have the change of time for travelling as a reason/excuse – the horse has to travel over regardless to run in the race and what time they did it in the past with other horse is irrelevant in respect to the current horse travelling over plus its not like he hasn’t travelled before. Are we really saying that there is an optimal time to travel a horse on the day of a race and if that time changes by a few hours it will stop a horse from performing to its best?…..Really!
He never offered it as a reason because he knew damn well it wasn’t the issue – for whatever reason the horse didn’t perform and you can argue whether the horse simply had an off day (most likely reason) or that he hasn’t actually trained on from 2 to 3 (less likely) or the stable is out of form but travel wasn’t the reason for his performance (or lack thereof).
FYI regarding Aidan/Aiden the training maestro being a County Wexford man would have been named consciously or subconsciously (if not after a relative) after Máedóc of Ferns AKA Saint Aidan who established a monastery in Ferns, Co Wexford – not Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne! The chances of being baptised Aiden rather than Aidan in Ireland would have been about 33/1. Aiden would have been considered as not quite kosher by some traditionalists. No debate about this spelling -its Aidan not Aiden
Maybe this is caused, at least in part, by no longer having GALILEO, who churned out Group 1 progeny?
Not having the travel arrangements to Newmarket as an excuse. Ballydoyle fly horses around the world, for races, on a regular basis. Horses having to stay overnight at the racecourse will be a regular occurrence.
“He never offered it as an excuse for his Guineas runners at Newmarket but others are citing the change of normal travel arrangements for their poor running. These are hardly seasoned travellers so how were they affected, what difference would it have made to them.”
Actually he did, prior to the race.
That is the point, they are not seasoned travellers and Aidan O’Brien is a creature of habit.
He actually mentioned it before the race and cited that as a major worry to him along with the likely change in the going, stating that the coronation had disrupted his travel plans to the extent that he couldn’t house his runners at Newmarket as usual and that it was the first time in many years he’d had to break his usual routine.
Often in sport people have ready made excuses to hand prior to a defeat.
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