VINCENT O’Brien’s family have lent some family pictures to the K Club in Co Kildare and Michael Davern, general manager of the club has placed them in the Media Puzzle bar. There are nine in total, all of which hung in the family’s house, at the K Club and they were painted by Richard Stone Reeves (1919-2005), whom the master trainer predominantly entrusted with the portraiture of his winners.

Born in New York City, Reeves grew up in Garden City on Long Island. His father’s family included a painter and his mother’s owned racehorses.