O’Connor keeps up his Olympia Christmas tradition
The Meath-based rider has made a habit of winning at London’s festive spectacle and, on Wednesday, he claimed the Pudding Stakes with the gelding Splendor.
“Olympia has been a very lucky show for me and I have won all the major classes here,” he said yesterday. “Aside from Wednesday’s feature class, I won the Earls Court jump-off class in 2009, and over the years I won the grand prix and the Santa Stakes and I was second in the World Cup. It’s been the most successful show of my career. One of the reasons, I think, is because of the packed house, with so many Irish supporting you, both here and on TV, so you take more chances. You want to give something back. It is a bit like the RDS show, it is all duck or no dinner.”
