JOSEPH O’Brien has made a fine start to his training career and with around 45 flat horses to run for the remainder of the season (a few of those will run at Dundalk over the winter), he has a lot to look forward to.

“I get a bigger kick out of training winners than I did when I was riding them. When you rode them, you got off them and to an extent that was that. But training them is very time consuming, but I love it,” he told The Irish Field.