There's still one glaring omission in O'Brien's CV – but Love could just fill it

Aidan O'Brien has built a peerless production line of excellence in Tipperary. The perfect alchemy of breeding and training renders the horses carrying the familiar silks of Coolmore better prepared than any others for the trials and tribulations top-level racing can throw at them.

No doubt the enviable arsenal at O'Brien's disposal helps, but his record really is head and shoulders apart from anyone else and perhaps the greatest compliment you can pay him is that he is able to get more out of his horses than anyone else could have done. The likes of Serpentine and Wings Of Eagles were not meant to win the Derby, but with O'Brien in their corner they did what many considered impossible.

But, among more than 300 Group 1 winners globally and a combined 87 Classic victories in Britain, Ireland and France, there is a glaring omission from his otherwise glittering CV – the absence of a transcendent superstar.