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Trainer Fergal O’Brien is ending the 2020-21 season with a best-ever score of winners and prize-money earnings, and considering he moved only 18 months ago to a new and bespoke-built yard, he admits he is a...
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HAT IS A GOOD SEASON FOR A NH TRAINER? One with a best-ever score of winners? One that has secured bestever prize-money? Ensuring that a new training base has worked out? Surviving in business, and taking that business forward for another year – particularly through the COVID-influenced problems we have endured for the last 12 months? One with Cheltenham Festival success? One that has challenged for championship honours? This NH season trainer Fergal O’Brien has acheived four of those six targets, and
he is not too far of the last two: he claimed honours as a rare British-based trainer who took a podium position at the 2021 Festival – Elham Valley was third in the Boodles Juvenile Hurdle (G3) – and he is heading for a top ten finish on this season’s British trainers’ table. So it can easily be argued that the 2020-21 season has been a pretty successful one for the Irish-born trainer, who is based at Ravenswell Farm near Cirencester in the Cotswolds, a mere scenic half-hour’s drive away from Prestbury Park. The trainer himself is understandably pretty delighted with the progress with the year – at time of writing he and his team,
