Posts tagged St Nicholas Abbey
Aidan O’Brien keeps faith with St Nicholas Abbey
May 10th
Talk is cheap but talking horses can prove very expensive. These are the animals who promise everything on the gallops each morning but fail to deliver come the racecourse in the afternoon. The talk on the gallops at Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle yard in Co Tipperary, which has been the proving ground for some of the [...]
Midas Touch returns for Aidan O’Brien
May 9th
After a period when reasons to smile were slightly more scarce than hens’ teeth, the irony may not have been lost on Aidan O’Brien. Midas touch would be an appropriate description of much of the trainer’s career. From his early days when he dominated the Irish jumping scene, through the transition to taking over the [...]
Aidan O’Brien faces trial of endurance
May 4th
Form is temporary, class is permanent is a regular incantation which is usually reserved for the losers rather than winners. Aidan O’Brien has often made a slow start to the season but that has not prevented him from being in the winner’s enclosure when the first major prizes of the season were being handed out. [...]
St Nicholas Abbey a classic Derby conundrum
May 3rd
Was the decision to run St Nicholas Abbey in the 2000 Guineas a mistake? Probably not. Hindsight is always the most gifted view of any problem and, viewed through that prism, the colt was always being asked to perform in the direct opposite to his breeding. Read the full story at: http://blogs.bettor.com/St-Nicholas-Abbey-a-classic-Derby-conundrum-a10764
Makfi wins 2000 Guineas
May 1st
The talk before the race may have all been about another horse but it was Makfi who had the final word. St Nicholas Abbey was billed as the next star of Flat racing but he fall rather flat as Maki landed a shock win in the stanjames.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket for his young trainer, [...]
Awzaan can win the 2000 Guineas
Apr 30th
An unbeaten colt, with Group One form, a solid pedigree in terms of stamina and all the potential to improve for his three-year-old season. Sound familiar? However, while St Nicholas Abbey may be all the rage in the markets for the stanjames.com 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, it could be Awzaan who gives Mark Johnston his [...]
St Nicholas Abbey needs to go the distance
Apr 30th
Nine months ago he was an unknown, in six months’ time he could be a legend but it will take less than 100 seconds on Saturday to determine whether St Nicholas Abbey is potentially the eighth wonder or more one of the five-minute variety. He goes to post at Newmarket for the stanjames.com 2000 Guineas [...]
Tester gets the Abbey habit
Jan 13th
Impressing the handicapper is not usually what a trainer has at the top of his priorities but Aidan O’Brien will doubtless be gratified to see that Matthew Tester, the BHA handicapper, has the same view as the ante-post markets. They have St Nicholas Abbey at the head of the markets for both the 2000 Guineas [...]
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