Frost chatted with the teenagers handing her racecards and pens, asking what they got for Christmas. “She said they needed someone who could dedicate themselves to her pointers and it just so happened to be me. O’Brien’s instinct had been to run his mudlover Global Stage here but Paddy Brennan, the winning jockey, suggested Poetic Rhythm would be a better bet. You’re very lucky to have him.”Having said Poetic Rhythm would run next in the Albert Bartlett at the Cheltenham Festival, O’Brien called over to Brennan for confirmation. He was a tired horse the next day, he was laid down in his stable when I fed him.

Source: The Guardian December 30, 2017 20:24 UTC