O’Brien produces Yeats to perfection

AIDAN O’BRIEN produced one of the training feats of his career as one-time Vodafone Derby favourite Yeats shrugged off a 242-day absence from the track to plunder the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot yesterday.

Twelve months on from bring the five-year-old back from a lay-off to land the Coronation Cup, the Ballydoyle maestro produced Yeats fit and ready to run away with the most prestigious staying race in the calendar.

Ridden by a confident Kieren Fallon, the son of Sadler’s Wells was always well placed behind the front-running High Action and reacted instantly when asked for maximum effort.