Saturday’s final Group One of the Flat season has turned into a virtual sweepstake for Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable
The final Group One race of the
British Flat season, the Vertem Futurity Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday, will be one horse away from a private sweepstake for Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle stable after the trainer was responsible for 11 of the 12 runners left in the race at Monday’s five-day stage.
O’Brien is well known for making multiple entries in major races but has never dominated the field for a Group One contest so thoroughly. Kameko, from Andrew Balding’s stable in Hampshire, is the only possible runner from a British yard in the race.