DONNACHA OUT TO SLOW AIDAN

DONNACHA O'Brien and his sister Ana are out to end their father's dominance in the Coolmore Stud Wootton Bassett Tom Cooper Irish EBF Futurity Stakes with the exciting A Boy Named Susie at the Curragh today.

- BY ADAM MORGAN

Aidan O'Brien has won the race a record 17 times, with the likes of Giant's Causeway (1999), Hawk Wing (2001) and more recently Henry Longfellow (2023) and Henri Matisse (2024) on the roll of honour.

He is well represented once again with Constitution River, who built on his narrow defeat at Newmarket on debut when scoring nicely at Galway.

But his son who prove the fly in the ointment with his impressive Killarney winner, owned by Ana O'Brien.