You'd have to be insane to back Albert Einstein for next year's Guineas at 8-1 - here's why it should be 25-1 the field

Albert Einstein might not have actually said it but he has become associated with the phrase "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". 

Fitting, then, that the speedy colt named after the German-born physicist who developed the theory of relativity should top the market for next year's 2,000 Guineas with Paddy Power, who are reporting him to be by far the worst loser in their ante-post book. 

Paddy Power trader Ryan McCue told me: "We laid Albert Einstein for the Guineas throughout the week of Royal Ascot. He didn't run there, but all of Aidan O'Brien's other two-year-olds were winning so punters latched on to that.