{"id":374100,"date":"2026-03-31T04:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374100\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:12:18","slug":"david-ord-on-the-gladness-stakes-defeat-of-aidan-obriens-one-time-2000-guineas-favourite-albert-einstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/374100\/","title":{"rendered":"David Ord on the Gladness Stakes defeat of Aidan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s one-time 2000 Guineas favourite Albert Einstein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve often marvelled at how trainers manage to take seemingly significant defeats in their stride.<\/p>\n<p>Take Aidan O\u2019Brien, for example. What was going through his mind two-and-a-half furlongs out in the Gladness Stakes at the weekend?<\/p>\n<p>The tempo increases, the camera angle changes to a side-on view and push all of a sudden is very much coming to shove for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportinglife.com\/racing\/profiles\/horse\/1182958\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Einstein<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And the brilliant speed he\u2019d talked of on the Ballydoyle gallops is missing. In three strides it was clear he was going to be beaten &#8211; and well beaten at that. Two minutes later and the Betfred 2000 Guineas favourite is a 25\/1 chance for the Newmarket Classic and there\u2019s no stampede to Oddschecker to find out who is offering said price.<\/p>\n<p>The handler, dressed for the elements, is on Racing TV soon afterwards and the plane ticket to Cambridgeshire on the first Saturday of May is cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve often marvelled at how trainers manage to take seemingly significant defeats in their stride. Take Aidan O\u2019Brien,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-374100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}