Gold Cup plans on ice for Yeats
The eight-year-old looked a shadow of his former self when beaten into sixth on his reappearance in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan last month.
“Yeats is fine, and we feel privileged to have such a horse. For him to win one Gold Cup, then two, then three, was unbelievable. We never thought that could happen,” said O’Brien.
“Everyone knows that he’s older and wiser and it’s great that he’s around at all.
“He needed to have a day out at Navan, the race was little bit slow and I suppose he didn’t really wake up.
“We’re hoping that we’ll be able to get him back to Ascot and if he gets back there that would be great. ”Like all of us, he does get older and he is only flesh and blood. He’s an eight-year-old colt and we’re delighted to be training him.
“We’ll just have to wait and see what will happen and when we do try and crank him up, we’ll have to see if he does respond.”
