IT’S long odds-on that Aidan O’Brien will bag another Group 1 William Hill Futurity Stakes at Doncaster today, his third in five years, his fifth in nine, but it’s difficult to find an angle into the race from a betting perspective.

Benvenuto Cellini was seriously impressive in winning the Group 2 KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes at the Irish Champions’ Festival at Leopardstown last month, and this is a logical next step, same distance and up in grade, from Group 2 to Group 1. Aidan O’Brien completed this double with Auguste Rodin three years ago, and he, of course, went on to win two Derbys the following year, as well as an Irish Champion Stakes and a Breeders’ Cup Turf.