So! The super-famous Irish trainer takes the blame for So You Think's farcical 2nd at Royal Ascot? Yes, Aidan O'Brien has confessed. He didn't train the hrose properly! Bart Cummings - so cruelly robbed of the champion - will be livid. Here's what the At The Races website says: 'Aidan O'Brien took full responsibility for So You Think's narrow defeat at the hands of Rewilding in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot...Ryan Moore kicked for home some way out on the imposing Australian import

So! The super-famous Irish trainer takes the blame for So You Think's farcical 2nd at Royal Ascot? Yes, Aidan O'Brien has confessed. He didn't train the hrose properly! Bart Cummings - so cruelly robbed of the champion - will be livid. Here's what the At The Races website says: 'Aidan O'Brien took full responsibility for So You Think's narrow defeat at the hands of Rewilding in the Prince Of Wales's Stakes at Royal Ascot...Ryan Moore kicked for home some way out on the imposing Australian import but he was collared close home by Frankie Dettori's mount...O'Brien said: "I will take responsibility for this personally. After he won his first two races so easily I had gone easy on him...It was a big step up on his last two races. He ran keen for the first two furlongs with Ryan and it was a strong-run race. He went and won his race but just got very tired in the last half a furlong...Frankie gave his horse a beautiful ride, on a horse that stays a mile and a half well, he just came and got him in the last 50 yards. I think it was trainer error, I didn't have him fit enough for this kind of race and he's given a good blow afterwards...I would think there's improvement to come.'

Wow, what a joke all that is! So You Think was sent out underdone in a key Grp 1 race at the biggest meeting of the year, he copped a severe check after a few hundred metres and he was booted to the front so early in the straight that he was a sitting duck for a horse like the winner Rewilding. As for the great Ryan Moore! He says the horse 'didn't pick up as I expected.' What a copout. So You Think did pick up - but he had to pick up flatout for the last 600m - a task he wasn't fit enough to perform due to his trainer's tragic error.

As if all this wasn't bad enough, we also hads the stupidity of the rider on the stablemate Jan Vermeer, who was apparently supposed to act as the 'pacemaker' for So You Think - but he was so tardy from the barrier and so lacking in early speed that it took him several hundred metres to get to the front and in doing so he cut acrossand sideswiped So You Think! Honestly, if you wrote the script no-one would believe you!

The UK Racing Post says: 'He certainly behaved like a horse who was much too fresh and the race did not go to plan. Sweating a bit under his saddle, he was too enthusiastic through the early stages, not helped by stable companion and apparent intended pacemaker Jan Vermeer missing the break and only getting to the front to set a strong pace after 2f. That runner then slightly hampered the favourite as he went by, and a further hindrance to So You Think was the persistent presence of Debussy (reported to have clipped rail turning in, eased). The tactics employed on the Godolphin second string were interesting to say the least, as he sat about as close to the runner-up as possible for as long as possible, not being allowed to stride on and consequently racing keenly, and he certainly didn┤t aid Ryan Moore┤s attempts to settle his mount. The runner-up quickened early in the straight, but it soon became apparent he wasn┤t going away from his field in the manner many had anticipated, and despite keeping on gamely, he was eventually overhauled in agonising fashion. All things considered So You Think is worth another chance and provided he takes the race okay it makes sense to turn him out quickly for the Eclipse, setting up a potentially fascinating clash with Workforce.'

Worth another chance? What a bloody cheek! The question is: Is the trainer worth another chance?