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time, New York was the center of flat racing and steeplechasing both. I was real sorry when the jumpers left New York [when Belmont Park cut down on the steeplechase schedule during the regular summer race season] and I figure I’d still have a mixed yard if there were still jump races here all the time.”
But O’Brien easily made the transition to training strictly flat horses. Third on the trailer’s table last year at Belmont, O’Brien’s career accomplishments on the flat include training 1996 3-yearold filly Eclipse winner Yank’s Music, Fourstars Allstar to win the 1991 Irish 2000 Guineas, and conditioning graded stakes winners Fourstardave, Wild Escapade
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