Albert Einstein has a tall reputation and the Wootton Bassett colt was a very short price to win the Group 3 Gain Equine Marble Hill Stakes on his second start.
The exciting juvenile was keen early on though, and when he went to mount his challenge he found trouble in running - into a quickening pace and at a track where the front-runners tend to be at an advantage.
What the equine Albert Einstein did in the closing stages marked him out as surely the best two-year-old we've seen so far this season, with his price now around just 5/4 to win the Coventry Stakes against a host of other exciting colts at Royal Ascot next month.
The post-race quotes from trainer Aidan O'Brien were noteworthy, too.
“He’s been very special in everything he’s done. He’s 540kg, that’s a very big horse and he’s only a two-year-old," said the trainer.
"I think his name was changed three times. Every time we named him Sue (Magnier) maybe thought the name wasn’t good enough for him.
“It’s a feeling putting those names on those horses and it’s a very difficult thing to do. I wasn’t sure what his name was as he was changed so many times.
“We always thought he was very special and that’s obviously why Sue called him that. He’s very exciting.
“The plan was to come here and go to the Coventry. I was worried today because it’s so windy and he is so sharp mentally, but he had to run.
“We were hoping it was going to be a strong run race, which I thought it was, but Ryan said he would have preferred them to go faster.
“If everything goes well I think that’s what the lads will do, but obviously they’ll decide all those things the week before Ascot.
“He was always very different all the way, everything he has done has been different. All we’ve ever been trying to do is slow him down.
“The special ones are like that, you are slowing them down and you’re not teaching them anything because they know everything. All you’re trying to do is get them to relax all the time.
“The real special horses are so natural and so good like that. Hopefully we’ll be able to keep him going the right way.”
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