THE Wallace yard is a stone’s throw from Portmarnock Raceway and right under the flight path as the planes take off and land at nearby Dublin Airport.

Newtown Stud, to use the formal term, is a lot like Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam in so far as most things have to pass through this hub on their way to new owners. Stallions, mares, sulkies, lorries – ‘leave it at Wallace’s’ is a common solution.