Rich Pickings Mean O'neill Can Laugh Off the Pounds 8m Hoax

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A supposed golden opportunity proved a false dawn for one trainer but he has gone on to become a huge success, reports Graham Cunningham

JUST ask Eoghan O'Neill if you ever doubt the wisdom of the theory that if something looks too good to be true then it usually is. The date was January 2000 and, after learning his trade as assistant to John Gosden and Sir Mark Prescott, the ambitious Irishman was desperate to start the new millennium by getting his own training career up and running.

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Rich Pickings Mean O'neill Can Laugh Off the Pounds 8m Hoax

And then, from out of the blue, a tabloid exclusive appeared under the headline "Rookie trainer gets Pounds 8m Derby favourite". Aidan O'Brien's highly-regarded Aristotle was the horse who was supposedly winging his way to O'Neill's Newmarket ...

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