The master of Ballydoyle Aidan O’Brien set to topple records of Flat racing
Born on the 16th of October, 1969, champion trainer, Aidan O’Brien, backed by the Coolmore operation, has rocked the training world right from its foundations and despite his relative youth, he has gone on to re-write the record books.
On his first day as a trainer, Aidan O’Brien sent out to runners in hope that they wouldn’t disappoint and come up at least on the money for a more stable start to his training career, but who knew he would saddle two winners on the very first day of his
training career in the National Hunt.
His inaugural season wasn’t going to rest on two winners on the first day, as he went on to win the jumps title.
Aidan O’Brien took up the training gear for his next season and much to everyone’s surprise he smashed further records as the season grew.
He went on to break the previous number of wins by any trainer in a year, and that was some way of announcing his arrival on to the main stage of training.
He left out National Hunt and wanted to primarily focus on Flat Horse racing, this decision was taken by Aidan O’Brien after the end of his second campaign.
Coolmore being on his back, helps the trainer win games and gives him a massive advantage, backed by the operation which goes on to make expensive buys in the high price yearling purchases that happen at Keeneland September yearling sales and everywhere
else.
These costly yearling acquisitions give Aidan O’Brien the top horses to train and use their superior breed to win all the races he wins and the best of the purchases will obviously conditioned by O’Brien to their peak at Ballydoyle.
The champion trainer after his 176 National Hunt and Flat race winners, which obviously was the Irish record, was asked to take over the Ballydoyle stables and he did not stop there, the Wiley trainer went on to break his own record the next year.
In the season of 93-94 way back he decided to go in training, Aidan O’Brien was jockey in Ireland and even as a jockey he piled on the championships, he went on to become the Irish Amateur champion jockey in the 93-94 season.
Somehow he gave up his flourishing jockey career, and after such a successful and promising career he put up his jockey irons and went for training as he opted to apply fully for a trainer’s license at the age of twenty three.
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