Sir Michael Stoute has announced he will retire from training at the end of the 2024 Flat season.
Billy Lee completed a double aboard Beechwood, as she impressively accounted for her 14 rivals in the feature at Galway this evening, the Ardillaun Hotel Irish EBF Oyster Stakes.
The well-supported Tamam Desert justified her position at the head of the market, as she narrowly got the better of Medici Venus in the Irish EBF Median Sires Series Fillies Maiden.
Clear Quartz registered his third course and distance win at Galway, as he provided Mark Fahey with further success in the Donnellys Of Barna Rated Race.
Sylkie came from last to first under an ice cool Colin Keane ride, as she registered her second course and distance success at Galway in the James P Cunningham Electrical Handicap.
Shark Hanlon could never have imagined as he loaded a deceased horse onto a trailer on 14 June that his actions that day would lead to him being banned from training horses.
Even the dimmest amongst us would instinctively know that transporting the exposed carcass of a dead racehorse in an open trailer through towns and villages could lead to disastrous consequences. To do so while driving a horsebox with your name blazoned across it would be so stupid that it could only have happened by accident.
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I'm from north Co Dublin, just between Dublin and Co Meath, and I always grew up around horses. My dad would have been involved plenty with hunting and he's always had show horses at Dublin Horse Show, and my mam did a lot of eventing. She evented at the top level, so we started off with ponies at a very young age. It has always been in the family. We would have done a lot of hunting during the winter and during the summer we would have brought the ponies to the shows nearly every weekend with the IPS (Irish Pony Society), and would have done a lot of working hunter. I won the Supreme Title at the IPS National Championship with working hunters. We had a lot of fun doing that with friends and still have friends doing it. I represented Ireland at the International Working Hunter Championship in Wales in 2019. I was lucky to go over and represent Ireland at that. It was great fun and we had a great time. My mam and dad would be involved a lot in the showing and we were very lucky we able to bring the ponies over to England a lot for the shows over there.
Shark Hanlon debate after trainer suspension
Vincent Finnegan and Johnny Ward discuss the latest racing news, including popular trainer John 'Shark' Hanlon's 10 month suspension.
