BEFORE racing began at Prestbury Park last week, Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) staged a parade of 14 former National Hunt stars including the Ireland-based Cheltenham Gold Cup winners, Al Boum Photo (2019 and 2020) and A Plus Tard (2022), whose trip over and back was facilitated by Treo Eile.

Al Boum Photo’s rider Louise Duffy, who is on the board of the Association of Irish Riding Clubs, drove the two horses over, accompanied by dressage rider Emily Kate Robinson, who does a lot of flat work with trainer Henry de Bromhead’s horses, and her mother Geraldine.