"It's absolutely marvellous and I couldn't be any happier," said O'Brien senior. His father, who has never won the Melbourne Cup and did not travel to Australia, congratulated him over the phone. I'm just so delighted for everyone," the winning trainer said. Joseph O'Brien only began training last year after retiring from a successful riding career aged 22, and becomes the youngest trainer to win in the 157th running of the race. Known as the "race that stops a nation", the event is the world's richest two-mile handicap, worth A$6.2m (£3.6m) and watched by 90,000 people at the track. Johannes Vermeer looked set to bring another big triumph for record-breaking trainer Aidan O'Brien.īut it was his son Joseph, 24, who won at the first attempt with jockey Corey Brown taking the lead on 14-1 shot Rekindling in the closing stages.
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