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winners. Welcome on to the final foreign podcast and a very very special

edition of the show. Hope we find you well on this beautiful day and I'm very proud to be able to welcome a first-time guest to the show.

In 1996, at the age of just 26, already a record-breaking trainer in the National Hunts Fear,

Koolmore Supremeo, John Magner approached him to fill the shoes

of the legendary trainer Vincent O'Brien following his retirement.

And since then, he has set every record imaginable, won every group and grade one race worth talking about.

And in 2017, set the world record for group and grade one winners in a single year with 28 wins. It's an honor and a privilege to welcome

Aiden O'Brien to the Final Forelum Podcast. Good afternoon Emmett. How are you?

I'm in good form, thank God. How has lockdown treated you and the team at Bellied Oil?

You know, I suppose like everybody else, it was just everybody was just kind of had to go slow and be very cautious and be very careful of everybody else and be very respectful of everyone's space really.

And it was just a, I think just probably a worrying time for everybody really.

We had just got through the first day of the flat season so one of the things that intrigues me most about this is when you're preparing a horse with a target in mind and you have the winning most record for the 2,000 guineas for example.

So you have a plan in mind, you have a date, and suddenly through

no fault of anybody's, that date is then snatched away from you and it enters a very uncertain

time.

How difficult is it to keep resources ticking over

and to keep them ready to then rebuild them for

for a race like the weekend?

Yeah, no, obviously it's it can be tricky like obviously our first target of the year always is kind of like obviously we trained horses for Dubai this year but then of our own

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