WHILE there is often much talk about the length of time it takes to retrain a racehorse, that wouldn’t wash with Thomas Byrne and Izzy Leadbitter, owner and rider of Destination Street who won the Willie Mullins-sponsored thoroughbred class at Wexford Equestrian on Wednesday.

The couple, who have recently returned to Ireland following a six-month trip to Australia, knew the horse was on the market and went to see him run in a five-year-old geldings’ maiden at the Killinick Harriers’ point-to-point in Lingstown on March 11th when he pulled up at the third last fence.