# Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey O'Brien dies > HelixNews · Web page: https://helixnews.one/story/831313 · All pages for agents: https://helixnews.one/llms.txt 4 outlets covering · First listed: Sky Sports, Nov 11, 2026, 4:31 AM · Read it: Multiple Grade One-winning jockey Tom O’Brien has died at the age of 39. ## Who's covering it In the order they published: - Nov 11, 2026, 4:31 AM: [Cheltenham Festival-winning jockey O'Brien dies]() — Sky Sports (Sports, United Kingdom) Multiple Grade One-winning jockey Tom O’Brien has died at the age of 39. - Nov 11, 2026, 5:58 AM: [Welsh Grand National-winning jockey O'Brien dies aged 39]() — BBC Sport (Public broadcaster, United Kingdom) Tom O'Brien, the nephew of trainer Aidan, rode more than 1,000 winners and won the Welsh Grand National twice. - Nov 11, 2026, 5:59 AM: [Jockey O'Brien dies aged 39]() — Yahoo Sports (Sports, United States) Tom O'Brien, the nephew of trainer Aidan, rode more than 1,000 winners and won the Welsh Grand National twice. - Nov 11, 2026, 8:20 AM: [Jockey Tom O’Brien, Cheltenham festival winner, dies aged 39]() — Guardian (Newspaper, United Kingdom) O’Brien rode more than 1,000 winners over jumps‘Tom meant so much to so many people across our sport’Tom O’Brien, who rode more than 1,000 winners over jumps including five Grade Ones and two at the Cheltenham festival, has died at the age of 39 after being diagnosed with cancer.O’Brien, who retired from race riding in April 2023, had a close association with Philip Hobbs’s stable near Minehead throughout his 20-year career in the saddle and enjoyed his most prestigious Grade One victories aboard Hobbs’s Thyme Hill in the Stayers’ Hurdle at Aintree in April 2021 and the Kauto Star Novice…