Wouldn't it have been better for the owners of the 2nd to have had their 1000gns winner also win the Oaks, rather than have a horse owned by someone else but trained by their main trainer do so?

If the trainer of the winner supposedly knew the score all along, what kind of trainer stitches up his main employers, as well as his own son so as not to put him on the winner that he apparently knew was going to win all along? I'd have thought too that Aidan O'Brien's employers would have liked to have known the score so that they knew exactly where they stood with own runner, trained by his son-in-law of one of those owners too, who had a chance of a fillies classic double?

It was obviously a surprise to all of them and the jockey bookings alone should tell you that, assuming the winning owner left it up to the trainer to sort that out and apart from anything else, remind my what the winning distance was again? Did they really know it all to be able to be that precise?

No HOMEFORTEA I was referring to the yards shock 25/1 Guineas winner that then went onto get beaten a total of 24 lengths in her next 2 outings, never again coming close to emulating her 9 length classic success.

Homecoming Queen

Oh dear some very paranoid keyboard warriors on this forum.