Double joy for Joseph O'Brien at Killarney
Galileo Sand and John Gleeson, centre, en route to winning the Kerry Drains Bumper at Killarney on Thursday night. Picture: Healy Racing
The O’Brien family enjoyed a tremendously successful time during the three Flat days of the Killarney festival and Joseph ensured that continued into the National Hunt section as, from five runners on Thursday’s card, he sent out two winners, two runners-up and one fourth-placed finisher.
With himself, his father, Aidan, and his brother, Donnacha, on the mark earlier in the week as trainers, and his sister, Ana, having joined the group as a winning owner here on Wednesday, it was turn of Sarah to continue the O’Brien dominance of the week when Nitty Gritty took the opener, the Laurels Pub Maiden Hurdle.
