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TRAINER · 144th BY BIG-RACE WINS

Joseph O'Brien

38 wins in the world's richest races between 2017 and 2026, across 29 different races. The biggest is the Melbourne Cup, worth £5,291,005.

Rolls of honour are kept race by race, so a trainer's big-race record only exists once every one of them on this site has been read and turned sideways.

BIG-RACE WINS 38
BIGGEST WIN £5.3m
RACES WON 29
FIRST AND LAST 2017 to 2026
COUNTRIES 6

When the wins came

38 wins from 2017 to 2026, in years

Best spell: 2022, 7 wins

A list of winners sorted by date reads as one long run. Drawn, it has a shape: Joseph O'Brien took 7 of these 38 in 2022 alone.

The races Joseph O'Brien keeps winning

By number of wins

6 won more than once

Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle 3 Melbourne Cup 2 Melling Chase 2 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle 2 Gallinule Stakes 2 Patton Stakes 2 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf 1 Irish Derby 1 St Leger Stakes 1 Stayers' Hurdle 1 Queen's Vase 1 Prix Ganay 1

Every big race Joseph O'Brien has won

38 winners, newest first

29 different races

Year Race Horse Jockey Country Worth
2026 King George V Stakes Enceladus Ryan Moore Great Britain £110,000
2026 Leopardstown Derby Trial James J Braddock Dylan Browne McMonagle Ireland £68,376
2026 Liverpool Hurdle Home By The Lee JJ Slevin Great Britain £250,000
2026 Queen's Vase Limestone Dylan Browne McMonagle Great Britain £262,500
2026 Sefton Novices' Hurdle Zeus Power JJ Slevin Great Britain £100,000
2026 Stayers' Hurdle Home By The Lee JJ Slevin Great Britain £325,000
2025 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Puturhandstogether Mark Walsh Great Britain £80,000
2025 Prix Chaudenay Tennessee Stud Dylan Browne McMonagle France £170,940
2025 Prix Robert Papin Green Sense Maxime Guyon France £111,111
2024 Critérium de Saint-Cloud Tennessee Stud Dylan Browne McMonagle France £213,675
2024 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Lark In The Mornin JJ Slevin Great Britain £80,000
2024 Grosser Preis von Berlin Al Riffa Dylan Browne McMonagle Germany £132,479
2024 King George VI Chase Banbridge Paul Townend Great Britain £250,000
2024 Prix Allez France American Sonja Dylan Browne McMonagle France £68,376
2023 Manifesto Novices' Chase Banbridge JJ Slevin Great Britain £120,000
2023 Prix Corrida Above The Curve Maxime Guyon France £111,111
2022 Gallinule Stakes Hannibal Barca Shane Crosse Ireland £42,735
2022 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle Banbridge Mark McDonagh Great Britain £75,000
2022 Melling Chase Fakir D'oudairies Mark Walsh Great Britain £250,000
2022 Prix de Flore Tranquil Lady Dylan McMonagle France £68,376
2022 Prix du Gros Chêne Brostaigh Dylan Browne McMonagle France £111,111
2022 Prix Ganay State Of Rest Shane Crosse France £256,410
2022 Tetrarch Stakes Buckaroo Shane Crosse Ireland £42,735
2021 Melling Chase Fakir D'oudairies Mark Walsh Great Britain £250,000
2021 Patton Stakes My Generation Shane Crosse Ireland £34,188
2020 Gallinule Stakes Crossfirehurricane Shane Crosse Ireland £42,735
2020 Melbourne Cup Twilight Payment Jye McNeil Australia £5,291,005£5.3m
2020 Patton Stakes Crossfirehurricane Shane Crosse Ireland £34,188
2020 Prix du Conseil de Paris Baron Samedi Mickael Barzalona France £111,111
2020 St Leger Stakes Galileo Chrome Tom Marquand Great Britain £700,000
2019 Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf Iridessa (IRE) Wayne Lordan United States £1,503,759£1.5m
2019 Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle Band of Outlaws JJ Slevin Great Britain £80,000
2019 Martin Pipe Conditional Jockeys' Handicap Hurdle Early Doors Jonjo O'Neill Jr Great Britain £75,000
2018 Irish Derby Latrobe Donnacha O'Brien Ireland £854,701
2017 Ballysax Stakes Rekindling Wayne Lordan Ireland £42,735
2017 Melbourne Cup Rekindling Corey Brown Australia £5,291,005£5.3m

The figure on each row is what that race puts up today, which is the number that says how big a day it was. The prize itself goes to the owner and the trainer takes a percentage of it, set by the rules of the country the race is run in.

Where Joseph O'Brien wins

6 countries

Country Wins Share Biggest race won there
Great Britain 15 39% St Leger Stakes
France 9 24% Prix Ganay
Ireland 8 21% Irish Derby
Australia 2 5% Melbourne Cup
United States 1 3% Breeders' Cup Filly & Mare Turf
Germany 1 3% Grosser Preis von Berlin

The trainers either side

Ranked 144th of 187 on big-race wins

# Trainer Wins Races Span Biggest win
134 Neil D. Drysdale 40 27 1975 to 2020 £1,503,759£1.5m
135 Stephen Autridge & Jamie Richards 40 15 2015 to 2022 £551,125
136 Peter Rau 40 31 1991 to 2008 £555,556
137 Kenneth G. McPeek 39 32 1996 to 2026 £3,759,399£3.8m
138 Chad Brown 39 21 2011 to 2026 £1,503,759£1.5m
139 Jessica Harrington 39 28 1996 to 2026 £854,701
140 Peter Easterby 39 20 1967 to 1991 £646,880
141 Vittorio Caruso 39 23 1991 to 2011 £447,692
142 Jens Hirschberger 39 25 2007 to 2018 £555,556
143 Tony Cruz 38 13 1997 to 2023 £3,800,000£3.8m
145 Colin Tizzard 38 28 2008 to 2022 £646,880
146 Fred Darling 37 15 1907 to 1947 £1,500,000£1.5m
147 Sam Hildreth 37 12 1899 to 1929 £1,503,759£1.5m
148 J. Elliott Burch 37 20 1950 to 1984 £1,503,759£1.5m
149 Bernard Sécly 37 19 1976 to 2002 £726,496
150 Roger Charlton 37 33 1990 to 2019 £4,511,278£4.5m
151 Jean-Marie Béguigné 37 29 1984 to 2011 £1,282,051£1.3m
152 Richard Hannon Jr. 37 27 2014 to 2024 £650,000
153 MacKenzie Miller 36 22 1956 to 1994 £3,759,399£3.8m
154 James E. Day 36 21 1984 to 2001 £1,503,759£1.5m

Frequently asked questions

How many big races has Joseph O'Brien won?

38, across 29 different races between 2017 and 2026. That is 144th of the 187 trainers on this site.

What is the biggest race Joseph O'Brien has won?

the Melbourne Cup, worth £5,291,005 and run in Australia. Joseph O'Brien won it in 2020, 2017.

Which race has Joseph O'Brien won most often?

the Fred Winter Juvenile Handicap Hurdle, 3 times at Cheltenham Racecourse. 6 of these races have gone to Joseph O'Brien more than once.

How much prize money has Joseph O'Brien won?

The prize goes to the owner, and the trainer takes a percentage of it set by the rules of the country the race is run in. What this page holds is the races themselves: 38 wins, the biggest of them worth £5,291,005.

When did Joseph O'Brien win these races?

Between 2017 and 2026. The busiest spell was 2022, with 7 of them.

Where to next

The races Joseph O'Brien has won, and the trainers around them

The races Joseph O'Brien has won

The trainers either side

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