'There is only one Arc and he has a serious engine' - maybe the 50-1 about Kyprios is a price worth taking

The gospel according to Aidan O'Brien can tell us plenty, if we listen properly. There is obviously all the politeness, saluting everybody from the shopkeeper down the road to the lady who turns off the lights in his local church but, when he gets down to the nitty-gritty of telling us about the thoroughbreds, we can learn a lot. 

Take Kyprios, for instance. O'Brien hailed the best stayer since Yeats "one in a million" after his second Irish St Leger success and, when he says that, it carries a bit more weight than when others do, given the million in Ballydoyle are quite the bunch. 

"Ryan said he won so easy," he told us after the two-and-a-quarter-length victory. That's the sort of comment you don't usually hear come out of his mouth either, and when talk turned to a possible tilt at the Arc he wasn't entirely ruling it out.