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HEADLINE NEWS For information about TDN, call 732-747-8060. www.thoroughbreddailynews.com TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2009 TDN Feature Presentation VINCENT O’BRIEN DIES Dr Michael Vincent O=Brien died Monday morning at GRADE 1 BELMONT STAKES his home in Co. Kildare, Ireland. He was 92. One of the greatest to ever tighten a girth, O=Brien, the son of a horse trainer, was born in Co. Cork. He TWO NEW STAKES WINNERS FOR first tasted success TWO-TIME LEADING SIRE A.P. INDY with steeplechasers, For owner/breeder Sam-Son Farm: EYE OF THE LEOPARD winning the famed For owner/breeder Frank Stronach: LORD JUSTICE Grand National three straight years, 1953- ‘BIRD’ BREEZE LEAVES CALVIN CONFIDENT 55, and saddled Cot- GI Kentucky Derby hero Mine That Bird (Birdstone) tage Rake (GB) to put in his final work before Saturday s GI Belmont S. at = Getty Images take the Cheltenham Churchill Downs yester- Gold Cup three times day. The bay breezed an in a row, 1948-50, and Hatton's Grace (Ire) to capture easy half-mile in :50 un- the Champion Hurdles from 1949-51. O=Brien turned his der jockey Calvin Borel, focus to flat racing and set up his stable at Ballydoyle in who was brimming with Co. Tipperary. His first flat-racing star was Ballymoss confidence after the 8:30 (Ire), who captured the Irish Derby and St Leger in a.m. drill. AWe=re gonna 1957 and the Prix de win, no questions asked,@ l=Arc de Triomphe, Coro- enthused the Cajun. AI nation Cup, King George loved the way he went VI and Queen Elizabeth II today.
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