It's Full On..But I Love This. It's Not A Job To Me

O’brien gives inside take on his passion & humility

- Eamon Doggett

Joseph O’brien is living out his dream each morning he arrives at his gallops on Owning Hill in Kilkenny.

While many of us are complaining that we can’t jet off to the Mediterranean because of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no place O’Brien would rather be.

In fact, bar a sole weekend, the 27-year old trainer (below) hasn’t got within a short head of a holiday in a long time.

He told Mirror Sport: “I haven’t really been on holiday since I started training and that’s five years ago.

“I got a weekend away last year which was nice but obviously we would have had runners during that time.