THE fourth Godolphin Flying Start Alumni Conference will take place in Ireland in 2020, on dates to be announced. However, the course’s general manager Clodagh Kavanagh was able to say it would be held between Royal Ascot and the Irish Derby, ensuring that travellers to the event would be able to fit in some world-class racing.

The dozen students who graduated at a ceremony last Friday in the Cape Cross Centre at Kildangan Stud bring to 175 the total number of people who have completed the course successfully. The graduates were presented with their diplomas by Godolphin UK managing director and Godolphin Flying Start trustee Hugh Anderson, with four students achieving a distinction. The top trainee was named as Katelyn Butler from Victoria, Australia, while Chloe Pitts from Suffolk in England achieved first class honours from the University College Dublin Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. The Flying Start programme is accredited by UCD.