Multiple Grade One-winning jockey Tom O’Brien has died at the age of 39.
O’Brien, who retired from the saddle in April 2023, rose to prominence with trainers Peter Bowen and Philip Hobbs and enjoyed a breakthrough season in 2006/07 with over 100 winners in that campaign.
The first of five Grade One successes came aboard Souffleur for Bowen in the 2007 Challow Novices’ Hurdle, while later in his career O’Brien would strike up a memorable partnership with Hobbs’ fan favourite Thyme Hill, landing the 2021 Liverpool Hurdle and 2022 Kauto Star Novices’ Chase.
O’Brien also rode Dream Alliance to his against-all-odds victory in the 2009 Welsh Grand National, a story which would inspire a Hollywood film called Dream Horse.
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