GORDON ELLIOTT, who will be pulling out all the stops at next week’s Punchestown Festival in his bid to be crowned champion trainer in Ireland for the first time, is set to lose a key member of his staff next week when one of his assistants, Olly Murphy, sets out into the cold wide world as a rookie trainer across the water.
The move will be a huge wrench for Murphy, who has been at Elliott’s for the last four years and been on hand to see the popular Co. Meath trainer make the steady climb to the top of the training tree.
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