Nick Townsend meets the remarkable ‘accidental trainer’ Fergal O’BrienNick 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...