IT is time to start talking about Richard O’Brien. When Alcatraz burst through late on to win a 10-furlong handicap at the Curragh on Saturday, he was giving his Limerick-based trainer an 11th win of the season.

O’Brien currently lies eighth in the trainers’ table and if you placed a trusty tenner on each of his runners so far this year, you’d now have €220 in your back pocket. This suggests that, to a degree, O’Brien could still be a little underrated in the markets but, given his rate of progression, it is unlikely this will be the case for long.