Donn McClean

IT’S all about Air Force Blue today. We will know soon if he is as good as a three-year-old as he promised to be as a two-year-old. He was mighty good as a two-year-old, of course. His defeat in the Coventry Stakes, on just his second ever run, is the only defeat of his career thus far. Aidan O’Brien’s colt bounced out of Royal Ascot and won the Phoenix Stakes on good ground, then he won the National Stakes on yielding ground, then he won the Dewhurst Stakes on good ground. Three Group 1s, rat-tat-tat.