Aidan O’Brien’s prospects of beating his own record for Group One wins in a calendar year diminished last weekend when he missed out in all five of the top-level events on Champions Day at Ascot, but he appears to have an iron grip on the Futurity Trophy at Doncaster on Saturday, the final Group One of the British Flat season.
O’Brien fields three of the six runners – Benvenuto Cellini, Hawk Mountain and Action – and they fill the first three spots in the early betting, with Benvenuto Cellini, the mount of Christophe Soumillon, heading the market at around 5-4.
