Horse: Briar Hill

Foaled: 2008

Breeder: Victor Connolly

Sire: Shantou (USA)

Dam: Backaway (IRE)

Trainer: W.P. Mullins

Racing career highlights: Briar Hill won over £100,000 and six races during his career. He won the Champion Bumper Grade 1 at the Cheltenham Festival in 2013 when ridden by Ruby Walsh as well as

the Grade 1 Novice Hurdle in Navan the same year.

Second career: Corinne Doran began retraining Briar Hill in early 2021 and they have enjoyed plenty of success in riding club activities as well as in the show ring.

They competed at the Dublin Horse Show in the Racehorse to Riding Horse Class for the past two years.

Briar Hill is now the resident horse for the “Meet the Racehorse” experience at Naas Racecourse.

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