Pat Keane: Aidan O’Brien right to bide his time with Gleneagles

Here’s a tip for the remaining few weeks of the flat campaign: Keep Aidan O’Brien very much on your side.

All the indications are that horses from Ballydoyle are poised to finish out the season with a real flourish.

The one we want to see most of all, of course, is Gleneagles, reportedly being organised for a tilt at the Group 1, one-mile Quipco Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot on October 17.