THERE have been contrasting reports this week surrounding friction between trainer Robson De Aguiar and Amo Racing’s Kia Joorabchian.

The up-and-coming trainer, who has been a long-standing ally of Joorabchian’s, revealed to the Thoroughbred Daily News: “We still have horses that Amo owns in partnerships but, the majority of the horses that they own one hundred per cent, they have been moved.”

However, the outspoken owner subsequently refuted any claims of a fallout and denied being annoyed that another horse trained by the Brazilian, Your Song (owned in partnership with Kerri Radcliffe and Arthur Hoyeau), beat Amo’s seemingly better fancied stablemate What A Girl Wants in a tight finish at Naas last Sunday.

“Maybe Robson got upset on Sunday because the only advice that I gave him was that, as a trainer, owning and having ownership of horses, and then running them against his other owners, it is going to create a conflict of interests,” Joorabchian told the TDN.

“Currently, in Robbie’s yard, 60 to 70 per cent, his wife [Giselle] has some form of ownership of those horses. That is a dangerous game when you are training for other people. That is the only piece of advice that I have given him. But I have lived with that.”

Amo, which has more than 50 horses with De Aguiar, released a statement that stressed “the suggestion that there has been some major breakdown in the relationship has been completely blown out of context”, outlining that “it was jointly agreed that a number of Amo-owned horses would be moved to the USA and England”.

These, according to Amo, included some horses “requiring rehabilitation, breeding stock and horses whose future plans are better suited to different jurisdictions.”

De Aguiar has nine runners at the Curragh this weekend, six of which are owned by Amo in partnership with the trainer’s wife Giselle, and one owned by the leading owners outright.