LIMERICK
Concertista, winning at Limerick at Christmas, will be well fancied for Cheltenham glory
every show. You do get to the point though where you think, actually, I’m a bit done with this. And I got to that point. Then the Equestrian Federation rang me and asked me if I would be the northern manager. It was the start of the Olympic cycle, we had just got 2012, and I said, yeah, why not? So, I went back to having a proper job!” Aſter the Olympics, she ran her own business
consultancy for a couple of years, before she worked for Go Racing in Yorkshire, where she stayed for four years, before taking on the role as manager of Sedgefield racecourse. “I loved it at Sedgefield,” she enthuses. “There
will always be a place in my heart for Sedgefield racecourse. It’s not the poshest place in the world, it hasn’t got the best racing, but it is proper,
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grassroots, National Hunt racing. And if your horse can win around there, it can win around anywhere. I know I made great improvements to the place, and I walked away with my head held high, proud of what I’d done.” It wasn’t easy leaving Sedgefield aſter three and
a half years. To leave the team there. It would have been far easier to stay than to go. But when she was offered the job at Limerick, she thought that it was just too good an opportunity to turn down. “I think that it is good to do something that
scares you sometimes. I quite enjoy being out of my comfort zone, if that makes sense. I spoke to James about it. It was a big move, moving to Ireland to manage Limerick. But James was great about it. And I spoke to my daughter, Lissy. She’s only 10,
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