AIDAN O’Brien has been the leading trainer at Royal Ascot nine times in total, including for the past four seasons. He has had 65 winners in total at the meeting and his total of four winners last year was slightly lower than usual.

We spoke to Aidan at Leopardstown on Thursday evening about some of his main challengers for next week’s meeting. As always, Aidan was very generous with his time and answered every question asked. It is is not his nature to get carried away and express strong confidence in any horses in particular.