LEO McArdle has been involved in racing for a long time but he’ll tell you himself, it is probably only the last few years that he has started doing it right.

“I was breeding horses for 10 or 12 years but I was a bad breeder,” McArdle says. “I was breeding from mares that hadn’t won or were poorly related, and sending them to good sires. I enjoyed hands-on side of it, but it was stupid, both finincially and logically.