According to Annemarie, the dispersal of the family’s homebreds remains a fluid process. It’s everything. Thirty became 50. Joseph O'Brien Racehorse Trainer is on Facebook. There is an unmistakable glow about him now that wasn’t always evident in the saddle, like a great weight has been lifted from his shoulders. Just that the business of riding, by its nature, left a void. Joseph O’Brien has made a huge impact since making the transition from record-breaking jockey to trainer. Since then, a couple of the yards had been rented out and the gallop made public, but until Joseph’s return, it had felt naked and underused, a castle without its king, a ship without a captain. All I wanted to do was the best for each horse I rode and now do the best for every horse I train. He would ride work at Ballydoyle in the morning and negotiate the 80-minute round trip to Owning, just outside Piltown, in the afternoon. Joseph is the third generation of the family to forge a pathway here and it feels right because it is where he was born and steadfastly what he was born to do. Racenet helps you keep up to date with each racehorse trainer by always In the weeks after the Triumph Hurdle, when Ivanovich Gorbatov was generating headlines, Joseph was keen to dispel the notion that his was a kind of satellite yard, a Ballydoyle-lite for jumpers and slower horses. “It’s fantastic for us to see the place rejuvenated,” says Annemarie. A day doesn’t pass, he thinks, when he won’t seek his father’s advice on something, but otherwise he is resolutely his own man, prepared to stand or fall on his own two feet. Joseph O'Brien is a trainer based in Co. Kilkenny (Ire). He bought yearlings and stores at the sales. The County Kilkenny trainer saddles leading contender Galileo Chrome in today’s Classic at Doncaster. Then more came. When his daughter Annemarie was old enough to take over the licence, he stepped aside. Joseph Patrick O'Brien (born 23 May 1993) is an Irish horse racing trainer and former flat racing jockey. © Irish Examiner Ltd, Linn Dubh, Assumption Road, Blackpool, Cork. All the stats, form and information about trainer - Joseph O'Brien (IRE) available at RACING.COM – The first destination for Australian Horse Racing. Trainer: Joseph Patrick O'Brien, Ireland Jockey: Denis O'Regan Age: 8 Weight: 11st 7lbs OR:-One for the future 17:10 - Gracchus De Balme Gracchus … The son of prominent trainer Aidan O'Brien, Joseph won the race at 18 years and five months of age, surpassing Fernando Jara who won the Breeders' Cup Classic at 18 years and 10 months in 2006. “She won her maiden and was placed in a Group 3 next time, a bit keen off the bend. Dermot Weld saddled 81 winners in a remarkable debut campaign in 1972, but the landmark Group 1 did not arrive for another year. View Joseph O'Brien’s profile on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional community. Back then it was just a big field. There is plenty of water still to go under the bridge yet but it is exciting to have a live contender for the 2,000 The likeness, of course, is startling. Not that he undervalued the privilege it was to ride many of the world’s best racehorses. He remains stubbornly dismissive of such milestones. He is the son of trainer Aidan O'Brien. But finding better quality horses to run in a greater variety of colours is at the base of everything being done at Carriganog. “My initial plan had always been to ride 20 winners, take a six-month break and then take out an amateur licence. “Never let school get in the way of your education,” his father would say and it always made him laugh. For the four children, there was never a time when their parents’ equine obsession became an intolerable imposition on their childhood. Everything we do here is done for the horse.”. Joseph can’t recall a day when the game soured him or he felt the need to sample life elsewhere and forego the best racing education a kid could wish for. The trick is to get to know them intimately, understand their quirks and change your routine to suit theirs. Dad widened it and planted the hedge. Joseph O'Brien trainer profile including major winners, current entries, recent results, stats for the season, per track and jockey combinations. Twilight Payment gives Irish trainer Joseph O'Brien a second Melbourne Cup win but victory is overshadowed by the death of 2019 Derby winner Anthony Van … She beat the filly who’d beaten her previously. Get the latest news from the world of sport along with the best opinion from our outstanding team of sport writers, direct to your inbox every Friday. Usually the ones who end up at the top are those who improve throughout the season.”. The way Joseph O’Brien tells it, there was no grand plan, no scorching blueprint for grabbing Irish racing by the lapels and shaking it to the core afresh. Aidan Patrick O'Brien (born 16 October 1969 in County Wexford, Ireland)[1] is an Irish horse racing In terms of pedigree, it was a natural and obvious mating. “If somebody told me I could do 8st 7lbs for the rest of my life, I still wouldn’t go back riding. Trainer Joseph Patrick O'Brien statistics and form. Spend a morning in his company and you see why. The same mannerisms, the same salutations — the listens and the please Gods — the same, often overlooked, dry wit. Join Facebook to connect with Joseph O'Brien Racehorse Trainer and others you may know. Joseph O'Brien has a win strike rate of 30 and a career ROI of 97. “I thought she could be possibly a black-type horse,” he says. In Aidan’s debut campaign at the premises, he notched 18 Flat winners, a total Joseph equalled when Jaqen H’Ghar landed a Curragh handicap in October. He had reached 45 come the middle of December. That’s genuinely what I wanted to do. She ran in the Debutante and was only beaten a length and a half. By that point his tally was 35 winners in both codes, not including the 19 or so attributed to his father during the first six months of the year. Backing all his runners to a £1 stake in the past 10 years has returned a loss of £-56 (-45%). Join us for a special evening of Cheltenham chat on Friday March 12 at 6.30pm with racing legend and Irish Examiner columnist Ruby Walsh, Irish Examiner racing correspondent Tommy Lyons, and former champion jockey and tv presenter Mick Fitzgerald, author of Better than Sex. 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Too much his father’s son for it to be any other way. Tuesday, 2 March, 2021 Joseph O'Brien's yard in Kilkenny (Image: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy) What then is a typical day in the life of a trainer of some 200 thoroughbreds many of … Joseph O’Brien has made a huge impact since making the transition from record-breaking jockey to trainer. If there was racing, he’d stop by in the evening instead. He feels no abiding sense of rivalry with his father because what they do is for the horses, never their own personal motives. He knew the Montjeu gelding was a decent horse and, provided he could jump, would be the type of classy recruit that could have level-headed horsemen thinking giddily of spring campaigns. The jockey rides out in the morning, turns up at the races and spends the rest of the day stewing and seething or twiddling his thumbs. Want to know more about Ireland's latest classic winning trainer? Joseph O'Brien (trainer of Thunder Moon): "Thunder Moon has wintered well and we are pleased with where we are. Dad was champion trainer here. So he marches on, preparing for battle on two fronts, flat out 12 months of the year. But this is just what any trainer will tell you. “I don’t set targets,” he says insistently. Horses are ticked off in pairs. A dual Champion Jockey in Ireland, Joseph won a catalogue of top races in the saddle and since starting training in 2016, has rapidly established himself as a leading trainer on the biggest of stages. He rode winners for both and counts them as friends. Now there are upwards of 150 housed in four separate yards — two more than in his father’s day — gathered like the beating chambers of a heart around the main artery of the gallop that dissects them. “That’s the great thing about racing. It made no difference to Joseph that when Intricately won the Moyglare under the guidance of his 18-year-old brother Donnacha, she edged one of his father’s fillies into second, because he understands one swallow never made a summer and that there will be many more occasions in the foreseeable future when it is his horse losing out to Aidan’s. Includes date entered, race time and latest betting odds. Registered in Ireland: 523712. His licence states he has been a trainer since June 3 but he has been grafting and plotting, doing the O’Brien thing, for longer than that. outstanding team of sports writers, Select your favourite newsletters and get the best of Irish Examiner delivered to your inbox. Sempo has been a bit of a work in progress over fences, but it was great to see him put in a clean round of jumping on his latest start at Punchestown. As things stand, his mother’s familiar orange and blue silks and JP McManus’ famous green and gold account, between them, for significantly more than half his runners and that patronage remains vital. He parks the jeep by the ring where first lot are gathered, issuing instructions in a voice that is familiarly soft and gentle, but firm enough to be heard. Donnacha said to make more use of her, she’d be better the next day. He smiles thinking about it now. Joseph O'Brien won four races on first day as a licenced trainer, but didn’t see any of them in person "How can you improve on that!" Class of 2020: Joseph O'Brien The brilliant Irish trainer talks to Kevin Blake about his team of two-year-olds for 2020. After Annemarie came her husband Aidan, then her sister Frances. LEADING trainer Joseph O'Brien is set for yet another huge weekend. “He breathes racing,” Aidan says of Joseph and, from a man who would risk chronic oxygen deprivation without horses, that is saying something. One time Joe had a couple of fillies he couldn’t sell and decided there was nothing to do but gallop them up the hill to get them fit for the racetrack because only a fool would think it was a good idea to gallop them down it. View results and future entries as well as statistics by course, race type and prize money. That’s your life. Saturday, 27 February, 2021 Still, the comparisons are inviting. Read More » Watch in full Our Facilities Carriganóg has a range of world-class facilities that surround its famous uphill gallop. “It’s like it’s come back to life again.”. https://betting.betfair.com/horse-racing/joseph-obrien/. Never the other way around. Forthcoming entries for trainer Joseph Patrick O'Brien. Bregawn and Spindrifter both started life here. The 23-year-old tells John O’Brien in The … Some like to go with horses slightly worse than them, some with horses slightly better. Frances had a lot of winners here as well.”. Joseph has 2 jobs listed on their profile. New customers only. She looks to have a leading chance on form and coming back to two miles shouldn’t be an issue for her. Joseph O'Brien (Ire) View 5 year stats MPR horses with this trainer Classy Choice Joseph's grandfather Joe Crowley was the first to train from the yard on Owning Hill and enjoyed great success there. Got more rides than I expected. When they had all moved on, Joe took a gentle hold of the reins again until retirement beckoned a few years ago. Blessed with the right pedigree and the attitude to match though, some can reach the hilltop faster than others. Dropping back to this shorter trip will be a help to her and hopefully she can get her season back on track with a better run. Back on the gallop, he points to the ring where a large group of stores circulate, products of the Derby and Land Rover sales, still awkward types whose days of reckoning remain some distance off. We’ll be hopeful that she can go very close. The 23-year-old tells John O’Brien in The Irish Racing Yearbook 2017 that he wants to build a strong dual-purpose yard on The Hill and to challenge the established operations — including Ballydoyle. And that’s what we did (in the Moyglare). Thursday 23 April 2020 Stable Tours Share this bet365 Sign up to bet365. Horses getting little setbacks. The home of Group 1-winning trainer Joseph O'Brien. Joseph O'Brien became the youngest rider to win a Breeders' Cup race when he piloted St Nicholas Abbey to victory in the 2011 Breeders' Cup Turf, his first start in the event. Scarlet And Dove has made a good transition to chasing this season, winning at Limerick and in the process of running a big race against Colreevy in a Grade 2 mares novice chase at Thurles only to fall at the second last. Joseph hankered for something more, like what his father had: The sustained fullness of the trainer’s life, the all-encompassing responsibility of being the conductor of the orchestra. Joseph O'Brien Stable Tour It’s quality over quantity for Joseph O’Brien and his most select jumpers can keep him at the top table in 2020/21 Sign up to Coral, bet £5 and get up to £20 in free bets. Joseph O’Brien joins our team of trainers for the first time in July 2020. Outside of the big races, what pleases him most are those he has won for a growing band of outside owners. If that means 50 winners or 10 winners, so be it. He has been coming here off and on — mostly on — since the latter part of 2014. It was a perfect storm of circumstances: A jockey whose resolve for the tortuous daily grind of wasting was waning and a grand old yard in Co Kilkenny whose potential wasn’t being realised. Latest news from the world of sport, along with the best in opinion from our Joseph P. O'Brien horse racing results, news, notes, top horses, biography, stakes, photos, and comments. It was around springtime that he started to think Intricately might make a decent filly. “Never let school get in the way of your education.” And yet, there is a distinct sense of a breaking away here, a 23-year-old determinedly forging his own path in life. They’d plough it in the summer. When Joe Crowley first alighted here in the 1970s, his plan was to graze cattle, cut corn and buy and sell a few racehorses, never imagining he was planting the seed from which a blueblood racing dynasty would emerge. Ivanovich Gorbatov came to him soon after he’d ridden him to win a Leopardstown handicap in August 2015. Mon, 06 Jun, 2016 - 21:33 Already, he has made a bigger splash than any rookie trainer since, well, his father before him. Trainer: Joseph Patrick O'Brien, Ireland Jockey: M. P. Walsh Age: 5 Weight: 11st 13lbs OR:-Pont Du Gard is a nice horse that joined us from France last year. Joseph quietly points out that between January and December 2015, 52 winners issued from Carriganog, all in Aidan’s name but very much the fruit of his own labours. Facebook gives people the … Navan 15:58 – Scarlet And Dove and Sempo. Fifteen soon became 30. Joe’s eye for a young horse was legendary. “No, no, I’m delighted not to be riding,” he quickly fires back. JOSEPH O’Brien is hoping Chrome can earn gold in the St Leger. Joseph accepts that the best of them are likely to be sold or sent to Ballydoyle, but that doesn’t mean good horses won’t fall his way. “You’d never say Group 1 but black-type definitely. Grandad trained a lot of winners here. The Betfair ambassador fills us in on his runners at Ascot and Leopardstown on Saturday - … But I got going quicker than I thought. Intricately was a good-looking filly, impeccably bred and he was glad to have her. A batch of homebreds arrived from his parents’ nearby stud farm. “I don’t have too many memories of living here,” Joseph says, “but this is exactly where the gallop was when my grandfather trained here. Gordon Elliott ban: The mood music has changed and Irish racing needs to find its feetÂ, ICU patients numbers fall below 100 as Limerick medic praises progress made on Covid, Horsebox outside Limerick 'drug supermarket' to prevent Garda raid, Alison O'Connor: Covid has reduced women to a 1950s gender stereotype, Ashford Castle concierge who was off sick for three years loses unfair dismissal case. He clocks the scales at a robust 11st, though it is so well dispersed throughout his tall, angular frame that he could easily fool you into thinking he was still a jockey. Not that he has lacked quality. So many things to be worrying about, horses’ feeds, hoping they’re coming right. Check out his thoughts on them all. Little cuts and bruises. FRI March 05, 2021 Three runners for Betfair ambassador Joseph O'Brien at … Everybody gets on well because they understand how hard it can be to get to where you want to go.”. Three days out from the Cheltenham Festival, we went behind the scenes to meet the team behind trainer Joseph O’Brien. He’ll probably need to jump even more sharply to fulfil his potential over fences, so that will be a focus point for him in this. That’s just the way it turned out.”. The focus is on National Hunt right now and Landofhopeandglory has taken to his new hurdling career like a duck to water. Rory Smith on Football: Can Man City's perfection still qualify as art? At first there were around 15 horses, mostly older types, ostensibly acquired for his siblings to ride in bumpers. Aidan had a stock of little pithy sayings like that, but that was his favourite. This is virgin territory. O’Brien doesn’t see the likes of Willie Mullins or Gordon Elliott losing sleep over the prospect of facing his horses, but he hopes he’ll keep the ball pucked out to them anyway. There’s no ‘I’m going to take a couple of days off because I need a couple of days off.’ That doesn’t happen.”. “I never did that when I was riding and I’m not going to do it while training. Sound Bite Stats • Joseph P O'Brien is a very unprofitable trainer. The secret here is that there is no secret. A low A/E value stat of 0.73 implies that overall the trainer is not good Mum was champion trainer here. He didn’t lick it off the stones. He is favourite to for the Triumph Hurdle, while St Leger third Housesofparliament could supplant his stablemate in that position if he proves as adept at jumping and Queen’s Vase victor Sword Fighter is another exciting new resident. Ride bumpers for as long as I wanted. A Group 1 win on the Flat, a Grade One at Cheltenham in all but name. It will be all good, clean fun. Aidan won a Group 1 with Desert King during his first season at Ballydoyle 20 years ago, but he’d spent three years cutting his teeth on Owning Hill before that. “It’s busy, full-on all the time.