Melbourne maestro seeking more success on home soil
David Jennings gets the lowdown from the Melbourne Cup-winning trainer
It was officially the year of the rooster but Joseph O'Brien crowed louder than anyone in 2017, winning the world's richest Flat handicap only a few months after landing Ireland's most valuable handicap hurdle. That extraordinary double was achieved as a 24-year-old too. He does not turn 25 until May.
O'Brien became the youngest winning trainer in Melbourne Cup history last November when Rekindling bravely denied his father's Johannes Vermeer just three months after Tigris River won the Galway Hurdle in August under Barry Geraghty. That is what you call versatility.
Now, after winning the Irish Gold Cup with Edwulf and sending out 65 jumps winners in Ireland so far this season, O'Brien has his eyes firmly fixed on another productive Flat campaign.
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