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Grand Kan, Eclipse champion Shadowbrook, Breaking Dawn — O’Brien said he knows that fact all too well. A terrifying fall in 1976 took O’Brien from the very top of the game to the bottom. When his mount fell at the last fence while leading at Monmouth Park, the field trampled him, and his own horse stepped on him, fracturing his skull and jaw and leaving him with a serious concussion.
“It gave me a nice dimple in the center of my chin, though,” O’Brien said with a laugh. “I needed a full year off of riding, and so my brother Michael [the leading NSA rider in 1972 who himself had been paralyzed in a steeplechase fall late that year] and I went home to Ireland and set up training there.”
O’Brien recalled his time with Tom Taaffe and the things he’d learned about horses in America working at the Powhatan Stud near Montpelier for U.S. ambas
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