Notable Irish trainers include Dermot Weld, John Oxx and Aidan O'Brien.

Take the long view, an Irish trainer e-mailed me.

Six Irish personalities were shown the business of horse training from six established Irish trainers and then competed against each other at race meetings in Ireland.

He had left his regiment (to his father's exasperated disgust) to learn about bloodstock and work for a while for a not over-reputable Irish trainer.

Meanwhile, the relationship between Hamed, who is 30-0, and Ingle, the Irish trainer who has worked with the 24-year-old fighter since he was 9, is strained.

He was made the even-money favourite, despite the field containing two runners each from the stables of the leading Irish trainers John Oxx and Jim Bolger.

John M. Oxx (born 14 July 1950) is a leading Irish trainer of thoroughbred racehorses.

He has had many winners in both Ireland and the UK and is the third most successful Irish trainer at Cheltenham training 18 winners.

Patrick J. Prendergast (1909 - 20 June 1980), known as Paddy Prendergast was an Irish trainer of racehorses.

He won seventeen Irish classics and became the first Irish trainer to have a major impact on British flat racing.