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O’Brien’s Land on course for Bar One
- Updated: November 21, 2016
Joseph O’Brien has high hopes Landofhopeandglory can land the JCB Triumph Hurdle in March so the trainer can celebrate the victory in his own name.
Ivanovich Gorbatov won the juvenile championship at last season’s Cheltenham Festival, but as O’Brien had not yet completed his training modules the horse ran under his father Aidan’s name.
Now a fully-fledged trainer in his own right and with a Group One win on the Flat to his name, he has a growing stable of former classy performers from the level with which to target the big winter prizes.
Landofhopeandglory, second in the Curragh Cup in June, has won his first two starts over hurdles impressively.
“I’m not 100 per cent sure, but he may go for the Grade Three in Fairyhouse (Bar One Racing Juvenile Hurdle, December 4), he’s come out of the race well from Saturday,” said O’Brien.
“All being well we hope he will be a Triumph Hurdle horse, but a lot can happen between now and then.”
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