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Aquarius could stay in training

Aidan O'Brien hopes Age Of Aquarius will stay in training as a four-year-old.

He was not declared for last weekend's Ladbrokes St Leger when trading as the favourite because of a late setback.

"Hopefully he will be in training next year, but I don't think he will run again this season," O'Brien told the Irish Times.

Of Alfred Nobel, who was last in Saturday's National Stakes, the trainer said: "He hurt his hock and there is still some swelling there. He's in some light exercise and it's too early to say if he will have another race this season. But he might."

O'Brien said he hopes to get another run into another highly-touted juvenile, Steinbeck, before the campaign is out.