AIDAN O’Brien sets the bar so high for himself that in a season when he has already trained a dozen Group 1 winners – more than a lifetime’s haul for all but a handful of trainers – it can be considered by some commentators that he is having a disappointing year!

Last weekend he had a pair of juvenile winners at the highest level, Fairyland (Kodiac) who has been reviewed in these columns already this year, and the No Nay Never (Scat Daddy) colt Ten Sovereigns who won the Group 1 Juddmonte Middle Park Stakes.