About Bull Dance

Donnacha O’Brien is an Irish Group 1-winning racehorse trainer and former two-time Irish Champion Jockey. Born in County Tipperary in 1998, he is the son of legendary trainer Aidan O’Brien and brother of fellow trainer Joseph O’Brien.

Donnacha enjoyed an exceptional career in the saddle, becoming Champion Apprentice in 2016 before claiming consecutive Irish Champion Jockey titles in 2018 and 2019. During his relatively short riding career, he partnered over 400 winners, including ten Group 1 victories and four Classics. Among his most memorable successes were the 2000 Guineas aboard Saxon Warrior and Magna Grecia, the Epsom Oaks on Forever Together and the Irish Derby on Latrobe.

Retiring from race riding at just 21, Donnacha established his own training operation in County Tipperary in 2020. He made an immediate impact, becoming the youngest British or Irish trainer to win a Classic when Fancy Blue captured the Prix de Diane (French Oaks) in his debut season. She subsequently won the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood, while Shale added another Group 1 success in the Moyglare Stud Stakes.

Since then, Donnacha has continued to establish himself on the international stage. His standout performers include Proud And Regal, winner of the Critérium International, and Porta Fortuna, who developed into one of Europe’s leading milers, winning four Group 1 races, including the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot.

His international success continued in 2025 when Balantina secured the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf at Del Mar. In 2026, he enjoyed further top-level victories with Kensington Lane in the Belmont Oaks in New York and Comanche Brave, who captured both the July Cup at Newmarket and the Flying Five Stakes at the Curragh.

Based in Tipperary, Donnacha has built an internationally competitive Flat racing operation, developing high-class horses across a range of distances and age groups. His achievements as both a jockey and trainer have established him among the prominent figures of the younger generation in European racing.

From Golden, County Tipperary, James Stack is universally known as “Fozzy.” He took over his father Tommy’s training license at the beginning of the 2017 Flat season and enjoyed a dream start when his first runner – Gino Severini – ridden by Chris Hayes, won the Palmerstown House Madrid Handicap at Naas on March 26 that year. Two weeks later, Fozzy landed the Group 3 Gladness Stakes with Diamond Fields at Naas and just a few months later, he also won the Group 3 Desmond Stakes at Leopardstown with Alexios Kommenos.

Fozzy won his first Group 2 with Aloha Star at the Curragh in July 2020, and he notched up his first top-level success with Aspen Grove, ridden by Oisin Murphy, in the Grade 1 Belmont Oaks in July 2023.

The likes of Son Of Rest, Sirici, Zihba, Lady Wannabe, Castle Star, Too Soon To Panic, Hermana Estrella and Aussie Girl have also given Stack notable racecourse successes.

Brad is a Louisville, Kentucky native, growing up just a short distance from Churchill Downs. He started working in racing under Burk Kessinger, Jimmy Baker and then moving up to assistant trainer under Dallas Stewart. Brad started his first horse in 2004 and in 2018 hit the 1,000-win mark. In 2020, he achieved 1,500 wins and over 60 graded stakes victories.

2018 was a banner year for the Brad H. Cox barn as Monomoy Girl gave Brad his first G1 win, and then she went on to win the Kentucky Oaks, Breeders’ Cup Distaff and Champion Three-Year-Old Filly. Covfefe, Arklow and British Idiom all clinched G1 races in 2019 under the direction of Brad. Heavy fan favorite Covfefe had a dazzling performance in the Miss Preakness Stakes setting a track record. She went on to win the Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Sprint and was crowned Champion Female Sprinter and Three-Year-Old Filly.

In 2020 Brad was named Outstanding Trainer, captured the Kentucky Oaks for the second time and won 4 Breeders’ Cup races. Brad currently stables horses in Kentucky, Indiana, New York and Louisiana.

Since taking out his trainer’s license in 2011, Brendan Walsh has amassed over 600 wins and more than $48 million in prize money. Now consistently ranked within the Top 10 trainers in the U.S., his list of training achievements includes five individual Grade 1 winners and the 2023 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly and Kentucky Oaks heroine Pretty Mischievous.

A native of Ireland, Brendan developed a passion for horses at an early age. He attended the races in Cork alongside his late father Patrick on a regular basis and fell in love with the sport of horse racing. Brendan’s fervor for horses was only deepened when he convinced his father to get him a pony. Despite being bucked off almost every day for the first two years of their relationship, Brendan eventually tamed the pony and learned some useful early lessons in patience and dedication that have stuck with him throughout his training career.

After a brief stint at the Irish apprentice school, Brendan decided he’d try the breeding side of the thoroughbred industry and gained a position on the prestigious Irish National Stud Course. Throughout the program he could not shake his love of riding and went to work for Godolphin’s breaking and pretraining operation at Kildangan Stud upon graduation. He was then offered a position riding Godolphin’s two-year-olds in Dubai, where his talent and dedication were quickly recognized, and he was granted the opportunity to travel around the world as a riding foreperson. This included trips to Arlington Park in Chicago, where he fell in love with American racing. Brendan decided to branch out from Godolphin to learn the business model and training techniques of trainers with multiple owners and accepted an Assistant Trainer position with Mark Wallace in Newmarket, UK, where he played a role in the success of the stable. After three years in England, Brendan decided his future lay in American racing, and he accepted an Assistant Trainer position with Kentucky-based Eddie Kenneally. He stayed in that position for four years, where he learned the intricacies of the American industry.

Brendan took out his own license in 2011 and notched his first win in March 2012. His early career was pushed into the limelight when his $10,000 claim Cary Street won the G3 Greenwood Cup and then the G2 Las Vegas Marathon on the Breeders’ Cup undercard in 2014. Other graded stakes victories by horses such as Scuba, Honorable Duty, Multiplier and Proctor’s Ledge further defined his early career and confirmed his aptitude for training top level horses. These early successes were integral to the growth of Brendan’s stable in both size and quality.

Under Brendan’s shrewd guidance, the stable continued to go from strength to strength during a hallmark year in 2019. He sent Plus Que Parfait to Dubai for a victory in the UAE Derby and followed that with an 8th place finish in that year’s Kentucky Derby. That autumn he won his first Grade 1 with Maxfield in the Claiborne Breeders’ Futurity. Since then, he has achieved top level results in both dirt and turf racing. His list of Grade 1 winners now includes the 2023 Champion Three-Year-Old Filly Pretty Mischievous, multiple Grade 1 winners Maxfield and Santin, as well as top flight winners Ocean Road and Extravagant Kid. Such success in a relatively short period of time reflects Brendan’s dedication and unique skills developed through years of hard work in different jurisdictions.

In August 2026, Todd Pletcher reached another milestone in his Hall of Fame career as he earned his 6,000th career victory when Versailles Road won the 14th race at Saratoga. Todd becomes just the seventh trainer to reach 6,000 wins. While he ranks 7th in all-time wins, he is first all-time in purse money won at more than $526 million.

Todd has won a record eight Eclipse Awards for champion trainer, is a two-time Kentucky Derby winner and four-time Belmont Stakes winner. He has also won 16 Breeders’ Cup races. Todd was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 2021.

Todd took out his trainer’s license in December of 1995 and saddled his first winner, Majestic Number, in February 1996.