How did you get involved in the racing industry?

One of the first horses I had was in ‘99. Louis Archdeacon bought a three-year-old at the sales and we raced him in Carrigtwohill and he finished second. We sold him to Henrietta Knight and he ended up giving Jim Culloty his first Grade 1. So that’s where I got going. I went on my own then and bought a mare. I named her Sharon’s Touch after my daughter. She won in Killarney and got blacktype in Fairyhouse in an EBF Mares’ Final. We went to Cheltenham one November for a conditional riders’ race on the Friday evening and she won that at 33/1. Rob Flavin rode her, and Louis trained her. We were the only Irish winner there that evening. It was some buzz. I covered her with Presenting, but she ended up breaking a front leg in the paddock, the same day as the Twin Towers.