AIDAN O’Brien goes into this weekend’s racing action on 22 Group/Grade 1 winners for the calendar year - three short of the world record set by American trainer Bobby Frankel in 2003. Last weekend, O’Brien won four Group 1 races, two in Britain and two in France.

O’Brien will not be short of opportunities to better the 14-year-old record before now and the end of the year and he will be doubly represented in the Group 1 Kingdom of Bahrain Sun Chariot Stakes at Newmarket on Saturday. The champion trainer has declared both his dual Group 1 winner Roly Poly and Alluringly for the race he previously won with Halfway To Heaven, ridden by Seamie Heffernan, in 2008 and with Alice Springs, the mount of Ryan Moore, 12 months ago.