00:19We've been going to beers' cup since we were literally kids.
00:22I remember being in Fort Worth, Texas.
00:25I was very young.
00:26It was one of my earliest.
00:27I can't even remember what track it was at.
00:29Going around with a cowboy hat.
00:31Probably one of the big ones was St. Nicholas Abbey winning the Readers' Cup turf with Joseph on him.
00:40I think we've done very well overall.
00:48I think we've won nine group ones now.
00:51For having only been trained, I think it's my sixth year or so.
00:53If someone would have offered me that, I'd have started more than taking it.
00:57I'm very pleased and hopeful that we can win some more.
01:00We got to know Medallion, who owned Valentina, obviously through Port Fortuna originally.
01:05They bought into her after she won her maiden.
01:07We had a go at the same race as Valentina won and she ran really well.
01:10She was second only beaten, I think, in Neck or something.
01:14They've all been so good to me in that they've reinvested every year.
01:17I picked up Valentina as a yearling.
01:20Mark McStay and myself have picked her out in Arcana and, you know, she was a lovely filly at the
01:25time.
01:25She obviously won a maiden at the Curragh and we went to the Royal Ascot.
01:29She ran really well there, finishing third.
01:31And then, thankfully, we got into the Breeders' Cup.
01:33We were quietly confident that she'd run very big.
01:35And I remember saying to Oisin that if things worked out that she had a big chance,
01:40obviously you can never expect to win, especially I think she was 40 or 50 to 1 or whatever she
01:44was.
01:45So, you know, to say that I was going there expecting to win, I'd be lying.
01:48But I got, like, horrendous food poisoning at the start of the week.
01:51The week ended a lot better than it started, we'll put it that way.
01:57To be honest, I knew from halfway when she was travelling and the pace was hot
02:00that if we got a clean run that she had a big chance.
02:03And Oisin got a lovely run down the rail.
02:05I think he just took her out, went off the rail, turned it into a straight.
02:08She got a run down the rail there and, yeah, it didn't look bad.
02:10But it's Valentina who rides the rail to win it!
02:15Everyone was around us, so all the family and connections of the filly were there.
02:20So, yeah, a special day.
02:21Very few trainers from Europe have trained Breeders' Cup winners.
02:26I think that is the only Irish trainer that has trained more than one Breeders' Cup winner.
02:30So to be on that list is very special and, you know, it shows you how hard it is to
02:35do.
02:35So it's something that we'll always have on the CV and, yeah, hopefully we can add a few more.
02:40Valentina's doing really well so far this year.
02:42We gave her a good break after Breeders' Cup last year and she's just taking a little bit of time
02:46to come to full fitness.
02:47But we're targeting the coronation at Royal Ascot.
02:50One of the big targets is that she gets back to the Breeders' Cup at the end of this year
02:53and hopefully we'll have some fun with her along the way.
02:56We want to have good horses winning good races and it's all about finding the next champion
03:01and the next one that can take you onto the world stage and compete at the highest levels.
03:09Friendship-speaking High Ascot!
03:09We'll take next month.
03:09We'll take next month.
03:09Friendship-speaking High Ascot.
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