Donn McClean paid a visit to the yard of Henry De Bromhead to find out how his team is shaping up for the season ahead.
Henry de Bromhead broke through the €1 million barrier in terms of prize money won for his owners for the first time in 2016/17, and he has broken through that barrier every season since then. A perennial at the top table of National Hunt racing, he is through that barrier already this season, and he sits second in the 2026/27 Irish National Hunt trainers’ championship.
Two more winners at the Cheltenham Festival last season means that the Knockeen trainer has had at least one winner at the meeting every year for the last 10. He has won all the marquee events there too, the Champion Chase four times, the Ryanair Chase three times, the Gold Cup twice, the 1-2 in the Gold Cup twice, the Champion Hurdle twice. The first trainer since Vincent O’Brien in 1949 and 1950 to train the winners of both the Gold Cup and the Champion Hurdle in consecutive years.
Some of his senior flagbearers retired from racing at the end of last season, but the momentum continues. He has an exciting team of horses, and lots to look forward to as we move into the teeth of the National Hunt season.
