Fame And Glory king of stayers
O’Brien had saddled one Royal Ascot winner this week with Power in Tuesday’s Coventry Stakes but blamed himself for So You Think’s preparation following his agonising Prince of Wales’s Stakes defeat to Rewilding, while Spencer indulged in a spot of mental flagellation over his ride on fifth-placed Gatepost in the Coventry.
Spencer was briefly O’Brien’s stable jockey until he returned to Britain in 2005 but the two men have been reunited by the Dubai-based businessman Jim Hay, who has bought into several of O’Brien’s horses and retains Spencer to ride them.
