British sniping at Aidan O’Brien Leger tactics unjustified

You’d wonder, at times, if the Brits have a problem taking their beating, writes Pat Keane.

Last Saturday, Aidan O’Brien won the English Leger with the progressive Capri, one of four horses he ran in the contest.

In the wake of a superb display by the grey son of Galileo, however, there followed a fair amount of sniping at O’Brien, centring on his use of so-called “team tactics.’’ There was no major controversy or anything like that, no just some comments that essentially smacked of sour grapes on the part of the auld enemy.