Which of Aidan O’Brien’s Classic colts will star next year? History warns us not to forget this one…

"We'll enjoy today," is one of the most common things you hear in a winner's enclosure, when pesky members of the press are asking what this horse could do in the future, while the trainer would prefer some appreciation for what has just been achieved. 

Such concerns tend to slide off Aidan O'Brien after so much experience but he must have wanted to use those words after winning three top-class juvenile races this weekend, an astonishing achievement that got somewhat subsumed in all the chatter about how each should be campaigned next year.

Puerto Rico, a runaway winner of Saint-Cloud's Criterium International, is now favourite with several firms for the 2,000 Guineas, while Pierre Bonnard, successful in the similarly titled Criterium de Saint-Cloud, is Derby favourite. Hawk Mountain, who ground his way to victory over a couple of stablemates in Doncaster's Futurity on Saturday, is prominent in the betting on both Classics.