Nick Townsend meets the remarkable ‘accidental trainer’ Fergal O’Brien
Nick Townsend

He is a man who, by selfadmission, became a trainer “by accident”. Yet, everything about the extraordinary impact Fergal O’Brien has made in the sphere of National Hunt racing tells you this character means business. Title-challenging, Festival-glorying business, that is – as much as he prefers to downplay such grand aspirations.
The man who hails from Tipperary and studied under the tutelage of the legendary late Captain Tim Forster before moving to Ni...