NO DAYS OFF 3 year old colt No Nay Never x Special Assignment. Within a few years Joe O'Brien had become a dominant force in racing in the Maritime Provinces. She looks the most likely winner, but O'Brien's other runners are classy horses on their day. By Andrew Dietz 10:19AM, OCT 5 2020. • Degraves (Joseph O'Brien, Lloyd Williams). In 1955 O'Brien and Scott Frost won the Hambletonian Stakes, the Yonkers Trot and the Kentucky Futurity giving him the United States Trotting Triple Crown. Joseph O'Brien, trainer of Grandmaster Flash, Tonkinese and ScholasticGrandmaster Flash is the classiest of my three but he has to give away a lot of weight and it is his first run after a layoff. Among them he trained and drove Triple Crown winner Scott Frost, as well as Armbro Flight to three straight Canadian Harness Horse of the Year honors. Paget Bloodstock Limited the owner/breeders of Earth Strike Joseph O’Brien joins our team of trainers for the first time in July 2020. Forthcoming entries for trainer Joseph Patrick O'Brien. Set in the picturesque location of Owning Hill near Piltown in County Kilkenny, Carriganóg Racing is headed up by Joseph O’Brien and is based in a yard that is steeped in racing history. Tonkinese just needs things to fall right for him. Joseph O’Brien’s other runner, Master Of Reality, finished 15th. Joseph Patrick O'Brien (born 23 May 1993) is an Irish horse racing trainer and former flat racing jockey. In 1969, Joe O'Brien became the first driver in history to have won the Hambletonian and Sweden's Elitloppet. In a remarkable three years of racing, Scott Frost would be voted the 1954 United States Two-Year-Old Trotter of the Year and the 1955 and 1956 United States Harness Horse of the Year. A To Z of Flat Horses; A To Z National Hunt Horses; A To Z of Dual Purpose Horses; 2 YEAR OLD SECTION. This has been a strange season and a strange year for people all over the world, luckily the racing industry has kept going behind closed doors. 2020 2YO; 2019 2YO; Owners. A filly who has been in good form in both codes, Scholastic was only narrowly beaten over the course and distance last month and looks to be attractively weighted in this contest, especially with Mikey Sheehy taking off a further 5lb. Includes date entered, race time and latest betting odds. Trainers Joseph O’Brien, Andrew Balding and Richard Hannon gave updates on their contenders as the entries were revealed today. He is the son of trainer Aidan O'Brien. [3] Noted for his quiet dignity and diplomacy, he is considered one of the greatest harness horsemen in history. He was just 16 years old when he won his first harness race at a Summerside track. 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Tonkinese (near): "needs things to fall right for him," says trainer Joseph O'Brien Joseph O’Brien won the Galway Plate with a horse who had never won over fences before and he might be able to do likewise with Speak Easy in the Troytown Chase at Navan on Sunday week. [9] On May 27, 1973 at Solvalla Racetrack in Sweden, O'Brien produced the first ever sub two-minute mile in the history of European harness racing when he won the second heat of the world-famous Elitloppet with Flower Child. Noted for his quiet dignity and diplomacy, he is considered one of the greatest harness horsemen in history. Joseph O’Brien can still be considered a relative newcomer to the training game having only taken out his licence in June 2016, but since then he has quickly accumulated a list of big-race winners under both codes that would be the envy of many veteran trainers. [13], Joe O'Brien was a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Trotting Association and served as president of the California Breeder's Association.