O'Brien brothers pull off 'unbelievable' victory over dad's horse

As he awaited the judge’s verdict from yesterday’s Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes photo at the Curragh Joseph O’Brien refused to believe. A few yards away, his father Aidan, the very definition or a relentless winner, found himself in unique territory: Hoping a horse under his care had finished second.

Seconds passed. Then came the announcement. Intricately, trained by Joseph, had got up on the line to thwart Hydrangea, trained by Aidan, by a short head. Cue bedlam.

Joseph, who won the Epsom Derby on Camelot as a 19-year-old jockey, who this year trained a Cheltenham Festival winner in Ivanovich Gorbatov even though he wasn’t yet officially a trainer had now, at the tender age of 23, trained a Group 1 winner.