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Aidan O'Brien

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Aidan O'Brien
Born 16 October, 1969
Co. Wexford,
Republic of Ireland. Flag of Ireland
Occupation Racehorse trainer.

Aidan P. O'Brien (born 16 October 1969 in County Wexford, Ireland) [1], is an Irish horse racing trainer. He is the private trainer for John Magnier and his associates at Coolmore Stud and heads up the training operation at Ballydoyle Stables in County Tipperary. Despite his relatively young age, Aidan O'Brien has already rewritten the trainers' record books. He initially enjoyed a successful riding career, becoming Ireland's amateur champion jockey for the 1993-94 season, which was cut short at the age of 23 when he opted to apply for a trainer's licence.

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[edit] Early and private life

Aidan O'Brien is the son of Denis O'Brien, a farmer and small-scale horse trainer. Denis O'Brien lives in the townland of Killegney, near Poulpeasty, in Co. Wexford. It was here that Aidan grew up. Aidan is the third of six children. His mother's maiden name is Doyle.

Aidan O'Brien attended Poulpeasty (or Donard) National School, located less than mile from his parent's home. He subsequently attended secondary school at Good Counsel College, New Ross, both located in Co. Wexford. [2] He is married and has four children. His wife's name is Anne-Marie (nee Crowley), daughter of horse trainer Joe Crowley. Their children's names are Joseph, Sarah, Anna and Dennis. For some time, O'Brien worked as an assistant to his future wife. [3]

O'Brien first started working professionally with horses at P.J. Finn's racing stables at the Curragh, Co. Kildare, and then with Jim Bolger at Coolcullen, Co. Carlow. [4]

He lives at Ballydoyle, Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland.

[edit] National Hunt

It was in National Hunt racing that he first made his mark as a trainer, sending out two winners on his first day and breaking prize money record when he won the jumps title in his first season. He broke the record for number of wins in a year in only his second campaign and then decided to concentrate primarily on the Flat. That opportunity came about when he was asked to take over the famous Ballydoyle stables in Co. Tipperary, which had previously been the home of his namesake, racing legend Vincent O'Brien (no relation). Vincent O'Brien, voted by the Racing Post as the greatest trainer of all time, left Aidan with one of the most advanced training establishments in the world along with Magnier's huge financial backing which enabled him to compete with the wealthy Arabs at the yearling sales for the best young horses on the planet. In that year, O'Brien, the younger, produced a combined total of 176 winners in Flat and National Hunt - a new Irish record until he broke it himself the following year.

[edit] Success

He continued to train jumpers - notably Istabraq, whom he saddled to three Champion Hurdle crowns.

  • In 2001 season, his domination stretched across the Irish Sea and he became the first overseas-based trainer since O'Brien Sr to become British Champion Trainer. That year he enjoyed unprecedented success, winning 23 Group 1 races. They included an Oaks-Derby double with Imagine and Galileo, the latter going on to add victory in the Irish Derby to his CV. O'Brien also made in-roads in the US, where Johannesburg won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile event.
  • After Istabraq retired in 2002, O'Brien gave up the jumping game but his grip on the Flat was strengthening yet further.In 2002, O'Brien retained both his English and Irish champion trainer's crowns despite the fact that the yard was hit by a coughing bug during the summer. That he was leading trainer in England with just 10 wins - earning £2.8m in prize money - proves the quality of his string. His successes included the Epsom Derby winner High Chaparral (also dual Breeders' Cup Turf winner) and runner-up Hawk Wing, who came home 12 lengths ahead of the field. Another of his inmates, Rock of Gibraltar, set a new record of seven consecutive Group 1 successes.
  • 2004 proved to be a disappointing year for O'Brien. It started off with the removal of Michael Kinane as stable jockey. Kinane was replaced by the young Jamie Spencer who had developed a good reputation riding in the UK. However the year ultimately proved disappointing on the track. Spencer was replaced after a string of self confessed mistakes on Powerscourt in the Arlington Million and on the same horse again in the Breeders' Cup Turf.
  • 2006 Season. The start of the 2006 flat season saw George Washington confirm his juvenille promise by easily winning the 2,000 Guineas on Newmarket's Rowley Mile to give O'Brien his 4th win in the race. While George Washington disappointed in the Irish equivalent, he redeemed himself in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot. Dylan Thomas would also make his mark in the top middle distance races in Europe. After going close in the Epsom Derby, he was found to be more effective under a patient Kieren Fallon ride in the Irish Derby. Dylan Thomas also showed his battling qualities in the Irish Champion Stakes, where he battled against the Champion mare Ouija Board to take the Irish Champion Stakes by a neck. Other 2006 highlights where to come through Alexandrova who dominated the middle distance fillies classics taking in the Epsom Oaks, Irish Oaks and Yorkshire Oaks. The end of season saw the juvenile Holy Roman Emperor take the Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère on Arc day at Longchamp. In one of the races of the season he would be beaten by a head in the Dewhurst Stakes by European Champion 2 year old Teofilo. Much of the excitement for next years flat season would be based around the rematch of these two colts in the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket. Aidan would finish the season winning over €6.5m in Ireland and Great Britain. The season was marked however by the emerging race fixing scandal involving stable jockey Kieren Fallon. On July 3, 2006, Fallon was charged along with 7 other people for conspiring to defraud the internet betting exchange Betfair. Fallon was one of 28 people answering bail at Bishopsgate police station in the City of London in connection with the inquiry. In a released police statement, he was described as being charged with "offences relating to allegations of fixing the outcome of horse races between December 1, 2002, and September 2, 2004, and money laundering". He was amongst three jockeys charged, along with Darren Williams and Fergal Lynch, all of whom had their licences suspended. Fallon's problems were further compounded when on the 29th November 2006 the French racing authority France Galop suspended Fallon for six months after testing positive for a prohibited substance. The 41-year-old six-times champion jockey tested positive for a metabolite of a banned substance.
  • 2007 season. The end of the 2006 season had apparentely left Ballydoyle with multiple options for the following years classics. However the opening part of the season was left in turmoil after the premature retirement of Holy Roman Emperor. The previous years champion miler George Washington could only cover six mares and was ultimately deemed infertile for commercial purposes and as a replacement Holy Roman Emperor was sent to Coolmore Stud. Plans had to be drastically changed with O'Brien saying "all our eggs were in one basket" in relation to the opening classic of the season the 2,000 Guineas. As a result the season began relatively quietly as far as O'Briens' classic crop was concerned. Howvever signs of changing fortunes would emerge on the day of the Poule d'Essai des Poulains when Astronomer Royal came with a late run to give Ballydoyle a 1-3-4 finish. Group 1 success was seen in the older horses through last year's Irish Derby winner Dylan Thomas when he won the Prix Ganay. The mid summer was highlighted by Scorpion winning the Coronation Stakes in an O'Brien 1-2 wth stable mate Septimus. The stable also dominated the St. James's Palace Stakes and the Irish Derby with Excellent Art and Soldier of Fortune respectively leading home 1-2-3 for O'Brien horses. O'Brien finished Royal Ascot as top trainer with four winners including Yeats who retained his Ascot Gold Cup and Henrythenavigator whom set the juvenile standard for the early part of the season by winning the Coventry Stakes. Ballydoyle was also to see the return of champion jockey Kieren Fallon to retainer duties in both Ireland and France, however his ban in the UK was still being enforced pending the result of his trial in relation to fraud in racing. Peeping Fawn managed to learn from her second place in the Epsom Oaks by taking the Audi Pretty Polly Stakes at the Curragh and eventually overturing form, albeit on softer ground, with Light Shift in the Irish Oaks. The season of 2007 also saw Aidan land the one big European race that had so far eluded him throughout his illustrious career when Dylan Thomas won the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe under Kieren Fallon.

[edit] Coolmore Stud

O'Brien is backed by the Coolmore operation, which undoubtedly gives him a huge advantage.Accompanied by world recognised class act Philip o' Callaghan who with his class produced some of the classiest racehorses to grace the track. The Coolmore operation is renowned for high priced yearling purchases at the Keeneland September Yearling Sales, and elsewhere, and more often than not the best of these will come under Aidan's guidance at Ballydoyle. Despite this advantage it is widely recognised that his skill at getting his horses to peak at the right time and his attention to detail, coupled with his earlier National Hunt exploits, mean that he currently has no equals in the training game. Aidan O'Brien is married to Anne Marie Crowley, former Champion National Hunt Trainer and daughter of Joe Crowley of Piltown, County Kilkenny, a well-known trainer of chasers and hurdlers and she is sister of Frances Crowley, who is a flat trainer at the Curragh.

[edit] Major wins

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Aidan O'Brien bio NTRA.com
  2. ^ H. Ashdown (ed.) & Poulpeasty Parish Committee, Echos of Poulpeasty (Enniscorthy: Courtney & Hogan Print Ltd., 1999), p. 174.
  3. ^ Aidan O'Brien bio NTRA.com
  4. ^ Echos of Poulpeasty, p. 174.
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