About Us
History
Ballydoyle Racing Stable in Co. Tipperary is acknowledged by many racing experts to be the finest training establishment in the world.
Originally the vision of Vincent O’Brien, and now under the stewardship of his unrelated namesake Aidan O’Brien, the tranquil setting has produced winners of all the major races in Europe and the USA. Vincent’s son David also made use of the Ballydoyle gallops during his brief but incredibly successful training career in the early 1980s.
The ideal academy for racehorses
When Vincent O’Brien hand-picked the property in 1950, it was a working farm, but several natural features of the place convinced him that it had the makings of the ideal academy for the racehorse.
He envisaged the perfect gallops on which no less than eighteen Epsom Derby winners would ultimately be prepared. What visitors to Ballydoyle see today is the culmination of more than seventy years of refinement from two of the greatest minds in racing, allied to investment on an unparalleled scale.
Home of Champions
Since 1966, only two overseas trainers have won the trainers’ championship in Britain.
Remarkably, both were based at Ballydoyle with Vincent topping the table in 1966 and 1977 and Aidan becoming the leading trainer in 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2016, 2017, 2024 and 2025. Irish racing enjoys greater international success than any other Irish sport, and for more than seventy years, Ballydoyle has stood at its very heart.
