RACEHORSE trainer Aidan O’Brien has set a new world record for the number of Group/Grade 1 winners in a calendar year.

The Co Tipperary-based trainer saddled his 26th top-flight winner of 2017 on Saturday when Saxon Warrior won the Racing Post Trophy at Doncaster. This took O’Brien past the previous record of 25 Group 1/Grade 1 wins set by American trainer Bobby Frankel in 2003.