How did you get into ownership?

We were always taken racing as children and my mother Ann Magee and family were heavily involved in racing. Two of her brothers were jockeys; Jimmy rode Irish Coffee in the Grand National in 1961 and completed the course, hard going in those days and Sean was a work rider. Trainer Frank Oakes is a cousin of my mother. I married Riona Hourihane and her father Bertie from West Cork, a vet, was a keen racing man and an owner so that kept the flame alive.