O’Brien hoping Sons show up well Joseph O’Brien is hoping for a good show from Sons And Lovers in Ladbrokes Ormonde Stakes at Chester on Thursday. The Study Of Man gelding was last seen finishing fourth in Group 2 company at Meydan in late March having won a valuable handicap prize in Riyadh the previous month. Despite this being a Group 3 event now it looks like a stiffer test for the five-year-old, with Ballydoyle pair Jan Brueghel and Illinois chief among his rivals. “We’re hoping for a good run. It looks like a deep race in fairness,” said O’Brien. “We think he’ll handle the track well. He won on a tight left-handed track in Saudi (Arabia) so he should handle the track.”
