All-conquering O’Brien is really only warming up

THE extent to which Ballydoyle has left all of the opposition in this country trailing miles behind in its wake was further emphasised by that 1-2-3 in Sunday’s Irish Derby at the Curragh.

As the press waited patiently, after the contest, to be given access to the main players, a colleague turned to me and asked, “do you have last year’s report on your computer?’

He went on to make the point that all one really had to do was change the names of the horses, a couple of words here and there and you were away in a hack.