Aidan O'Brien's Record Chase: Historian Predicts Both Outcomes

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What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.

1. 

   Kenji MoonfieldAidan 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.

2. 

   Kenji MoonfieldSo he's chasing himself. With me is Barnaby Tolliver Oduya, racing historian and author of Nobody Beats Themselves. You called this?

3. BT

   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.

4. 

   Kenji MoonfieldBoth predictions are in the same book?

5. BT

   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.

6. 

   Kenji MoonfieldThis 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?

7. BT

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

8. BT

   Barnaby Tolliver OduyaI can't recall which I believe.

9. 

   Kenji MoonfieldRacing Post asked if the wheels had come off after a blank at York and defeats at Deauville.

10. BT

    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.

11. 

    Kenji MoonfieldLast 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.

12. BT

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

13. 

    Kenji MoonfieldBarnaby, one rating. Your book gets two stars out of five, one for each prediction.

14. BT

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

15. 

    Kenji MoonfieldSo the only man who can stop O'Brien is O'Brien, and he's on your stopwatch.