Really did think I’d get to see this triple crown in my lifetime mate and I thought this was the horse to do it.
Something wasn’t right that race but to me, Aidan O’Brien is the “Pep” of horse trainers, as soon as it lost the gunnieas I went to 5 different bookmakers and laid off bets for it to win the derby mate.
Managed to get 9/1 at them all too and lumped a fair bit on because I still believe this horse is something special, it happened the previous year with O’Brien and Auguste Rodin, was massively fancied for the guineas then romped home at Epsom.
The stalls seemed the problem that day apparently it got worked up and it’s heart rate was all over the place, Ryan is a fantastic Jokey and he wouldn’t push a horse if he knew something wasn’t right.
Roll on June now hopefully recoup my money plus a little extra :-)
It’s now hot favourite for the derby, I’m glad I went straight out and backed it when it lost and came last.
I always back ante post, sometimes it pays off others it doesn’t, more annoyingly I also had it for the 2000 guineas as a double with Haaland to finish with the golden boot lol