O’Connor: Owners need to see the bigger picture

Not only would Cian O’Connor say the sale of this country’s best horses is not necessarily a bad thing, he would go so far as to declare it as a “positive”.

His thinking is counter to the prevailing opinion, in that the sale of the likes of Shane Breen’s Cos I Can and the Greg Broderick/Declan Orpen-owned world champion five-year-old Arraghbeg Clover diminishes this country in terms of competitive strength.

But O’Connor believes that view is myopic.