O’Brien sets new Irish flat record

Joseph O’Brien broke Michael Kinane’s record for the number of flat winners ridden in a season in Ireland when registering a spectacular 112/1 treble on Sardinia, Marvellous and Dysios at Navan yesterday.

O’Brien (20), champion-jockey for the first time last year, equalled Kinane’s 1993 total of 115 winners when Sardinia, trained by his father Aidan, made all to land the October Maiden emphatically from Waaheb.

He broke the record on the appropriately named Marvellous, which made a successful debut in the Irish Stallion Farms 2-Y-0 Fillies Maiden, and, for good measure, rounded off a memorable day when partnering the Denis Cullen-trained Dysios to victory in the first division of the Meath Handicap.