Oliver Brady

stuttgartkelly

Great to see him have another winner today in Clonmel with Saddler's Native. The real hero of Irish horse racing, we need more charaters ike this in the sport of Kings.

He may be bound for a good season as well, following the purchase of a few nice horses recently and hopefully Maralan will prove a success this season.

rynners

don't know anything about him, hope he does well though..

mike65

I find its threads like this that should be noted. Will keep an eye out for the name.

btw rynners I suspect letsbet is the reason this forum is quiet.

Frazzled

mike65 wrote: »

I find its threads like this that should be noted. Will keep an eye out for the name.

btw rynners I suspect letsbet is the reason this forum is quiet.

Brady is around a long time. It is pretty much impossible to follow the yard closely, but he does pop up with some big priced winners from time to time. He is especially worth noting at Navan where he has saddled some very big priced winners.

Maralan looks in the grip of the handicapper, but he may get a race out of him at some stage.

Frankie Lee

Great to see him in good health, his banter with Matt Chapman does be legendary, also the tips he gives should always be noted even when the horses shouldn't do that well.

Frazzled

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Great to see him in good health, his banter with Matt Chapman does be legendary, also the tips he gives should always be noted even when the horses shouldn't do that well.

Always worth noting at Stratford on the day before the Cheltenham festival in March! He is a decent skin even if he is not to everyone's taste and has battled back well from illness. He is also a pretty sharp businessman which is never noted when he is discussed and has done very well for himself.

Frankie Lee

Frazzled wrote: »

Always worth noting at Stratford on the day before the Cheltenham festival in March! He is a decent skin even if he is not to everyone's taste and has battled back well from illness. He is also a pretty sharp businessman which is never noted when he is discussed and has done very well for himself.

I know, he could easily be mistaken as a fool which would be a bad mistake to make.

premierstone

Frankie Lee wrote: »

Great to see him in good health, his banter with Matt Chapman does be legendary, also the tips he gives should always be noted even when the horses shouldn't do that well.

Yeah I think this is what endears him to many, alot of other trainers could learn from he's honesty and candidness

Sprouts

I was watching Mr Brady being interveiwed at Kilbeggan during the summer, he had some nasty comments for Matt Chapman regarding Matts opinion of one of his horses saying it wouldn't see a racetrack again, Pablo i think it was called. I reckon Oliver Brady is as close to crazy you can get, with a nasty streak there too, can be entertaing though.

Where will Matt Chapman pop up next after getting the boot from ATR?

mike65

Has not been booted! He's back, just been on "holliday".

Sprouts

He must have apologised then? Im glad anyway, he asks the questions on air that we would all like to.

00dyel

what did Mr Chapman do?

stuttgartkelly

Sprouts wrote: »

I was watching Mr Brady being interveiwed at Kilbeggan during the summer, he had some nasty comments for Matt Chapman regarding Matts opinion of one of his horses saying it wouldn't see a racetrack again, Pablo i think it was called. I reckon Oliver Brady is as close to crazy you can get, with a nasty streak there too, can be entertaing though.

Where will Matt Chapman pop up next after getting the boot from ATR?

No, he has no nasty streak in him. It's only banter but it might come accross to some people as being more than that but he is a genuine character with passion for the sport.

Itsdacraic

Frankie Lee wrote: »

I know, he could easily be mistaken as a fool which would be a bad mistake to make.

A wise man can act the fool, but a fool can't act the wise man.

He can be a bit OTT but tis all harmless stuff.

dodgyme

stuttgartkelly wrote: »

No, he has no nasty streak in him. It's only banter but it might come accross to some people as being more than that but he is a genuine character with passion for the sport.

himself and chapman are legends for the craic between them - exactly - "up monaghan"

stuttgartkelly

A great article on him in yesterday's Indo.
Sums him up really, what a man.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/the-miracle-of-oliver-brady-1598315.html
Ebadiyan has a mighty chance in the feature in Punchestown today also.

stuttgartkelly

Great to see him bolt up, and a great celebration as always!:D

NewApproach

Delighted for him to see that Ebadiyan is turning out to be quite a horse, he deserves it, is great for Irish racing and he is such a great character!

Dont know how his health is these days, but he was looking in good form when interviewed last week by Gary O Brien.

mike65

He was shouting the odds at Punchestown yesterday, seemed in decent fettle.

careca

NewApproach wrote: »

Dont know how his health is these days, but he was looking in good form when interviewed last week by Gary O Brien.

Sunday Indo (or maybe Times) did an interview with him last week. Very good. He is on 18 tablets a day but they reckon the horses are keeping him alive. Interesting to hear how he built half his all weather gallops from a gamble and finished them off when he landed another one

He really fancies Ebadiyan for the triumph and although he goes on some tirade when he has a winner, he normally calls his horses right. He always thought Baron De Feypo and Maralan (sp??) were good animals and he was proved right when they won/were placed in big meetings.

Ebadiyan could be worth a few quid at 12s (although the triumph is really tough) as he says it will improve with good ground (surely a given for the festival).

Bluetonic

Nice Radio 1 documentary about Oliver which was on last Saturday.

Well worth a listen here.

It would be hard not to take a big shine to him.