Joseph Patrick O’Brien

Joseph Patrick O’Brien is, of course, the son of perennial leading Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien and first found fame as first-choice jockey to his father. O’Brien Jnr. was Irish Champion Jockey in 2012 and 2013, but is probably best remembered for winning the 2,000 Guineas, the Derby and the Irish Derby on Camelot – who came within three-quarters of a length of winning the Triple Crown – in 2012. At 5’11” tall, Joseph O’Brien ultimately become unable ride any lighter than nine stone and, in March 2016, announced his retirement from race-riding.

In his new career as a trainer, based at Owning Hill, Co. Kilkenny, O’Brien wasted little time in saddling his first Group 1 winner, Intricately, in the Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh in September 2016. He has since become a highly-respected and successful trainer, under both codes, not only in his native Ireland, but also on British soil and elsewhere. Still only 30, at the time of writing, O’Brien has already chalked up a total of 16 Group 1 wins worldwide, including the Melbourne Cup twice, in 2017 and 2020, with Rekindling and Twilight Payment, the Fillies’ Mile at Newmarket twice, in 2018 and 2020, with Iridessa and Pretty Gorgeous, and the St. Leger, in 2017, with Galileo Chrome.

 

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