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Royal Ascot 2024: Aidan O’Brien gets it right this time with Auguste Rodin

Aidan O'Brien with the Prince of Wales after being presented with a saddle cloth representing his 400th Group One winner.
Aidan O'Brien with the Prince of Wales after being presented with a saddle cloth representing his 400th Group One winner. Photograph: David Davies/PA

Aidan O’Brien has spent plenty of time kicking himself already this season, most notably over his ­preparation of City Of Troy for the 2,000 ­Guineas, and he was at it again here on Wednesday after Auguste Rodin’s ­three‑quarter‑length success in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes.

“Honestly, I feel the blips were my fault,” O’Brien said. “The instructions were wrong, and it was time to start getting it right.”

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