Vincent O'Brien, one of the most successful horse trainers of all time, died on Monday at the age of 92 at his home near Dublin, his family said. O'Brien, who secured 16 English and 27 Irish Classic victories, 25 Royal Ascot wins and 23 Cheltenham Festival successes over a 51-year career, trained Nijinsky, the first horse for 35 years to land the English Triple Crown. O'Brien, initially a successful jump trainer, established the Coolmore stud in the southern Irish county of Tipperary in the 1970s, with Robert Sangster and John Magnier, now one of Ireland's richest men and married to O'Brien's daughter Sue. “There was nobody like him,” Sue and John Magnier said in a statement. “Coolmore Stud and Ballydoyle are the results of his vision and testament to his success.” O'Brien, who retired from training in 1994, had been spending his winters in his wife's hometown of Perth, Australia. His best horses included Alleged, beaten only once in a 10-race career and Sadler's Wells, known as the “supreme sire of modern times”, according to Horse Racing Ireland.
