Joseph O'Brien granted trainer's licence Joseph O'Brien will have his first official runners as a trainer at Listowel and Gowran on Monday. After having already fulfilled the necessary protocol, the dual Irish champion jockey's application for a licence was rubber-stamped on Friday by the Turf Club. O'Brien said: "All went well. The paperwork has been sorted out, and I'll be declaring on Sunday to have my first runners on Monday. "I'll have a couple in Listowel and at Gowran, where we have a two-year-old and one in a handicap." The 23-year-old son of multiple champion trainer Aidan O'Brien had been supervising part of his father's huge string in Owning, County Kilkenny. He was also credited for his preparation of Ivanovich Gorbatov, who won the JCB Triumph Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in March.
