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Aidan O’Brien readying Newmarket squad in pursuit of Bobby Frankel world record

The Ballydoyle master trainer has the hot favourite in the Fillies' Mile at Newmarket on Friday, with Happily as short as 2-1 to take Aidan O'Brien within one top level win of Bobby Frankel's world record of 25 Group One victories in a calendar year.

By Matt Butler
8th October 2017, 6:30 pm

RECORD-CHASING trainer Aidan O’Brien will be on another Group 1 charge at Newmarket this week.

The Ballydoyle wizard needs just two more top level wins to equal brilliant Bobby Frankel’s world record of 25 in a single year.
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And O’Brien will move one step closer if Happily – a red hot 2-1 favourite with Sun Bets – wins the Bet365 Fillies’ Mile on Friday.

The only threat to Happily appears to come from within as O’Brien also has the next two in the betting – Magical and September.

Should O’Brien train the winner, the Tipperary trainer will have a chance to equal the record at the Rowley Mile on Saturday.
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Middle Park hero US Navy Flag, Seahenge and Threeandfourpence will be the big O’Brien Dewhurst hopes.

He has taken the seven-furlong Group 1 three times in the last four years with Churchill, Air Force Blue and War Command.

Yet O’Brien may have to wait until Champions Day on October 14 to draw level with Frankel as the Dewhurst looks a duel between Sir Michael Stoute’s Expert Eye and Jim Bolger’s Verbal Dexterity.

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Expert Eye is 4-7 to win, with Verbal Dexterity at 4-1. Seahenge and U S Navy Flag are both 7-1.

Such is O’Brien’s humble nature, he had not even acknowledged the Group 1 record until Roly Poly gave him win number 23 in the Sun Chariot at Newmarket last weekend.

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O’Brien said: “To break such a great record would be incredible for everybody, but it is a team effort. The horses always comes first, it’s race to race, horse to horse.

“We’ll just carry on doing our best in every race.”

Frankel set his record in 2003, six years before he died. If there is one man who can do the US legend proud, O’Brien is that man.

 

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