Derby champ fails but two-year-olds keep O’Brien top in Breeders’ Cup

Aidan O’Brien and Ryan Moore

The Breeders’ Cup Classic continues to elude Aidan O’Brien who had his first runner in the race since 2018, not even the best he has ever trained, City Of Troy, was able to provide him with a first win in the most valuable race of the meeting. City Of Troy, like Galileo in 2001, retires to Coolmore Stud as a Derby winner who came up short in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, however that didn’t seem to impact Galileo’s remarkable succe...