THE farm is based near Kilcock, over the Meath border, but we are steadfast Kildare supporters!

I have always been mad about the ponies, reading every horsey book from a young age until I was lucky enough to get my own pony, Tora. My late grandmother Mary Rose Hayes (whose month’s mind is today, Saturday) gave us a stable in her yard on the Curragh to keep Tora in, and we’d go down every day possible to see her. Granny had broodmares alongside her racehorses, so I was surrounded by breeding from the get-go.