Ireland’s Aidan O’Brien has become the most successful trainer in Breeders’ Cup history with Gstaad’s emphatic victory in the Juvenile Turf.<\/p>\n
Despite a tricky wide post in the one-mile race at Del Mar, near San Diego, Gstaad breezed past his rivals as rider Christophe Soumillon timed his late push superbly.<\/p>\n
It secured a record 21st Breeders’ Cup win for O’Brien, who surpasses the late D Wayne Lukas, as well as a record-extending eighth in the Juvenile Turf.<\/p>\n
“It’s special, Wayne was a special man, unbelievable,” said O’Brien. <\/p>\n
“Wayne was such a big help to us all the time and when we had Giant’s Causeway he was such a help. He was there at the barn when we were relatively new here and helped shoe him and he came down to the track with us on his own horse.<\/p>\n
“Everything he did was for his horses and his owners. He dreamed a lot and was an incredibly special man.”<\/p>\n
While O’Brien senior, who has 26 top-level wins this year, claimed the all-time record at the championships, his son Donnacha O’Brien celebrated his first Breeders’ Cup win.<\/p>\n
His maiden triumph came when champion jockey Oisin Murphy rode Balantina to a thundering surprise win in the $1m (\u00a3760,292) Juvenile Fillies Turf.<\/p>\n
“This is very special. It was fantastic,” Donnacha, 27, said after joining his father and brother Joseph as a winning Breeders’ Cup trainer.<\/p>\n
“To watch Dad do it year-in and year-out, and Joseph to get winners – nice to be on the board.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland’s Aidan O’Brien has become the most successful trainer in Breeders’ Cup history with Gstaad’s emphatic victory in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-237728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}