A third of horses are travelling from Ireland to racing’s biggest festival before UK quits EU
A highlight for him this year will be leading out a contender, Shattered Love, for the first time in the coveted Cheltenham Gold Cup on Friday, the final day.
“The horses’s welfare is number one. Ten or 12 hours is long enough. It is not good for the horses to be stood on the lorries for longer than they have to,” she says., Co Meath, runs a smaller yard but is equally concerned. “We would just have to go earlier because it will take them longer to recover. It is very hard to quantify how it affects them standing for eight or nine hours but it does affect them. It is kind of like a jet lag really.”
“I don’t think our checks will be anything major. Any extra paperwork can be done quickly or in advance but it will be the delays in the ports that will cause problems,” says McConnell.
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