Coolmore Australia Brochure 2019

Ballydoyle Stables Ballydoyle Stables in Co. Tipperary is Coolmore’s racing arm and is acknowledged by many racing experts to be the finest training establishment in the world. Firstly Vincent O’Brien, and now his unrelated namesake Aidan O’Brien, have sent out horses from this tranquil setting to win many of the major races around the globe. Vincent’s son David also used the Ballydoyle gallops during his brief but spectacularly successful training career in the early 1980s. Tom Magnier’s grandfather, the legendary Irish trainer Vincent O’Brien, hand-picked the property in 1950 when it was a working farm, but several natural features of the place convinced him that it had the makings of the ideal academy on which future champions would be prepared. Natural drainage and the fertile limestone land make for a good covering of grass which provides an extremely safe surface on which to gallop horses. The gentle inclines allow horses to exert themselves that little bit more without putting additional pressure on their front legs. Since 1966 only two overseas trainers have landed the trainers championship in Britain. Remarkably, both were based at Ballydoyle with Vincent topping the table in 1966 and 1977 and Aidan becoming leading trainer in 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2016 and 2017. Irish racing is more successful internationally than any other sport in which it participates, and Ballydoyle has been central to that success over the past 60 years.

Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer , both purchased from Coolmore connections, gave their owners a memorable 1-2 in the 2017 Melbourne Cup-Gr.1 .

Nick Williams , part owner of Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer

More success from Ballydoyle in Australia this season in the form of the Gr.2 winners THE TAJ MAHAL and YUCATAN .

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