WHEN Bluebell Breeze won in Galway last Sunday, I became the youngest active Irish trainer to send out a winner. I had my first point-to-point runners in February this year and ran my first horses on the track in the autumn. At the moment, I have 14 horses in training, so to get a winner under rules this early in my training career has been brilliant.

I’m from Oldleighlin in Co Carlow. My mam, Imelda (Leahy), was a jockey. She worked in Jim Bolger’s for years and for Dermot Weld. We always kept hunters and eventers at home when I was younger. I started riding out for Shark Hanlon when I was 11 or 12 and worked there part-time until I left school when I was 15. I went working for Willie Mullins for two years.