IT has been business as usual at our Newbridge yard since I took out the licence at the start of August and two wins from nine runners has given us the start we needed.

I was always surrounded by horses growing up through pony club and hunting and went to all the local race meetings as a child. However, it wasn’t until a mare called Dromadapan who had been injured after running in a few point-to-points arrived in the yard in 2001 that my passion for racehorses really began.