IF you’re a regular traveller to Newmarket, be it for racing or for the sales, you may well be familiar with the Bedford Lodge Hotel. The hotel is a popular choice for jockeys, trainers, owners and basically anyone on racing business or leisure with a need to stay a night in the famous location within the racing world.

Bedford Hotel’s chief executive is second generation Irish man Noel Byrne, whose father is from Co Louth, and whose mother is from Achill Island, Co Mayo. Noel, although having just spent over a month in “beautiful” Achill is very much a Newmarket man now.