On In­di­an Ar­rival Day, it was all “John O’Brien Day” at the races.

Tues­day, the cham­pi­on train­er con­tin­ued his su­perb form when he sad­dled three of the six win­ners on the Ari­ma Race Club’s (ARC) day six pro­gramme.

The top train­er con­tin­ued his ex­cel­lent per­for­mances when he sad­dled the un­beat­en fil­ly In The Head­lines to take the fea­ture event on the six-race card – the Ms In­deera De­ok­iesingh Guineas - the first leg of lo­cal rac­ing’s ‘Triple Crown’.

O’Brien was de­light­ed with the fil­ly’s vic­to­ry and hopes to see her con­tin­ue thriv­ing in the com­ing months.

He said, “It is an ho­n­our to win a clas­sic and the man­ner in which In The Head­lines won was im­pres­sive. She is a good fil­ly who has im­proved over the past five months. She did it in style and will meet Hel­lo World in the Mid­sum­mer. That will be a ma­jor clash.”

The top con­di­tion­er had three hors­es in the Guineas and with the high­ly-re­gard­ed un­beat­en fil­ly Fire­crack­er hav­ing to be with­drawn at the gates, it left the room open for O’Brien to land an­oth­er mag­i­cal one-two-three. How­ev­er, it did not hap­pen and the 6-1 chance The­o­ry of Colours came with a run to snatch sec­ond ahead of Blind­ing Lights and An­gry Bird.

O’Brien who has been the cham­pi­on train­er for near­ly a decade and has sad­dled two ‘Triple Crown’ win­ners in Mo­men­tum and Wise Guy, showed clear­ly that he had not lost his touch with his three win­ners.

He al­so sad­dled So­ca Har­mo­ny to win the un­der­card with the su­perb as­sis­tance of for­mer cham­pi­on jock­ey No­bel Abrego.

“So­ca Har­mo­ny ran a great race. She was re­al­ly well-rid­den by No­bel Abrego. Yes, we put up over-weight but Abrego rode her su­perbly. There was nev­er any doubt who would win once Abrego got her go­ing. She won well and she was beat­ing the Gold Cup win­ner Crown Prince and the Stew­ards Cup run­ner-up, Top of The Game,” said O’Brien, when asked about his first win­ner on the card.

He was back in the win­ner’s en­clo­sure in the fifth event through In The Head­lines who won as she pleased in the Guineas. Her win was im­pres­sive and by sev­en and a quar­ter length from rank out­sider The­o­ry of Colours and sta­ble com­pan­ion Blind­ing Lights.

In the fi­nal race of the day, favourite Hap­py Bird gave train­er O’Brien his third win­ner on the six-race pro­gramme. Hap­py Bird won im­pres­sive­ly by 5 1/2 lengths un­der the lead­ing rid­er for the day, Tris­tan Phillips.

Phillips al­so won the fea­ture aboard In The Head­lines in the Guineas, be­fore dou­bling up with Hap­py Bird in the fi­nale on day six.

O’Brien said: “My fi­nal win­ner was Hap­py Bird who was the 6-5 favourite. She broke loose at the start and re­turned to make every­one hap­py with an ex­cit­ing per­for­mance. Hap­py Bird con­tin­ues to im­prove and could make her mark in time to come.”

At this point, though win­ning three races from six, all did not go his way, it looks fruit­less for any­one to think about at­tack­ing the lead of O’Brien who has shown yet again, that he is “The Boss”.

He is ex­pect­ed to con­tin­ue win­ning the cham­pi­on’s train­er crown in 2023.