O'Brien unfaltering as Waver takes him to 126

Published at Oct 25, 2013, 21:13

Waver and Joseph O'Brien
© Photo Healy Racing

Record-breaker Joseph O'Brien is raising the winners' bar to a new height with every winner he rides and the Champion Jockey-elect moved on to 126 wins for the season when steering Waver home in the Crowne Plaza Race & Stay Handicap at Dundalk this evening.

Winning trainer Aidan O'Brien wasn't present but his son and winning jockey later stated “he (Waver) was suited by the surface and I got a nice run up the inner and he quickened up well when I asked him.”

The racecourse subsequently made a presentation to O'Brien in recognition of his record breaking year which saw him surpass Michael Kinane's record of 115 winners in an Irish Flat season.

By Thomas Weekes, quotes from Alan Magee

8.45

Crowne Plaza Race & Stay H'cap €13,000.00 1m 2f 150yds

1st

Waver (IRE) (1)

5/1

Tote €5.90 €2.00

2nd

2.75L

Refractor (IRE) (3)

6/1

€3.80