Juddmonte is looking to the future with Joseph O'Brien, who joins trainers Ger Lyons and Dermot Weld on the Irish roster for the powerful owner-breeders.
O'Brien has won some of the biggest races in the world and described being added to Juddmonte's training roster as “a real privilege” before explaining that he has a number of back-end horses for the team associated with legends like Dancing Brave, Frankel, Kingman and Enable.
Speaking on the Nick Luck Daily podcast, O'Brien said, “It's a real privilege for us to be asked to train horses for the Juddmonte family and the team. They have had an incredible number of years as a historic operation.
“It came about through a call with Barry Mahon [Juddmonte's general manager for Ireland and European Racing] a little while ago, and some of the team came to visit the yard, and it went from there. We have a few two-year-olds for them, and at this point in the season, they will be second-half-of-the-season types.”
The 33-year-old added, “It's hard to get horses that are capable of turning up in Classic races and Group races, as it is for everyone, because there are only a few of those in each generation, but the bigger breeding operations have access to these incredible families, and Juddmonte have that.
“Please God, over the next few years, we can have a colt or filly turn up in these big races and this can be a long, fruitful relationship.”
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