The Aidan and Charlie Show - how two rival trainers have made European success at the Breeders' Cup a sure thing

Is it starting to feel like we're being spoiled? Once again, there was plenty of European success at this Breeders' Cup, with five different trainers making the scoresheet and NBC's presenting team regularly explaining to their audience why the visitors are so good at turf racing.

If you were in a partisan frame of mind, it made for quite enjoyable viewing on Friday and Saturday nights, even allowing for disappointing outcomes for some well-fancied raiders like True Love and Minnie Hauk. Fresh-faced fans of the game (I'm assuming there are some) could be forgiven if they take it for granted that Europe always shows up well on US racing's big weekend.

Since 2020, the worst performance by the raiding party has been three winners. It feels like a new world for those of us who can remember how hard it was to win at the Breeders' Cups of the 1980s and 90s, when it might take a Miesque or a Daylami, or a freakshow like Arcangues, to break the American hegemony.