Aidan O'Brien chases his own Group One record this weekend

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAidan O'Brien has twenty-two Group One wins this season and the world record for a year is twenty-eight. He set it in twenty seventeen.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo he's chasing himself. With me is Barnaby Tolliver Oduya, racing historian and author of Nobody Beats Themselves. You called this?

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   Barnaby Tolliver OduyaYes, and also the opposite. As I wrote in chapter four, he breaks it. As I wrote in chapter nine, he doesn't. Buy both chapters.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBoth predictions are in the same book?

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   Barnaby Tolliver OduyaThey're in the same book, yes. Whichever happens, I'm on the record. This stopwatch is from twenty seventeen, by the way.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThis weekend he's in four top-level races, and Saturday he goes for a thirteenth William Hill Futurity at Doncaster. Does that get him close?

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   Barnaby Tolliver OduyaClose, no. As I wrote in chapter two, wins are not the same as records. Chapter eleven says they are.

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   Barnaby Tolliver OduyaI can't recall which I believe.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentRacing Post asked if the wheels had come off after a blank at York and defeats at Deauville.

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    Barnaby Tolliver OduyaAhead of schedule, yes. Behind his own schedule, in chapter six. He was twenty-five by the end of last October. I have the stopwatch.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentLast year he hit twenty-five after a weekend hat-trick, so he's about three short in a year that isn't done. The guy to beat is the guy from twenty seventeen.

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    Barnaby Tolliver OduyaExactly, and he's winning. As I wrote in chapter fourteen, the best trainer alive is also his own toughest critic.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentBarnaby, one rating. Your book gets two stars out of five, one for each prediction.

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    Barnaby Tolliver OduyaFair. I'd say three, but that's chapter twenty.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the only man who can stop O'Brien is O'Brien, and he's on your stopwatch.