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but she was a big part of it too. She was nervous about moving initially, but when she realised that her ponies could come too, she was completely fine with it!” Emma’s last day at Sedgefield was January 14, which happened to be a race day. The last race, the Good Luck Emma From Sedgefield Open NH Flat Race was won by the Peter Niven-trained Ontherouge. “All the jockeys came out and gave me flowers


and stuff. I think they were just making sure that I was actually going. I said to Brian Hughes, ‘aſter all this time, you start being nice to me now?!’” She locked up aſter racing, dropped the keys in,


“It is good to do something that scares you sometimes. I enjoy being out of my comfort zone”


and packed her bags. “The people at Limerick have been brilliant,” she says. “People here have made me feel so welcome. Trainers have gone out of their way for me, people like Eric McNamara, Paul Nolan, Michael Hourigan. There are lots of differences between Sedgefield and Limerick, but there are lots of similarities too. I love it so far, and I’m looking forward to the road ahead.” There have been a few small changes


already. Like, there is a best-turned-out prize for every race at Limerick now, and there will be an overall prize for 2022 at the end of the year. “There are other things that I am certainly looking at,” says White, “that I would like to see done differently in the short term. And longer term, I’d love to see some more graded races here, and that’s what I’ll be going for. “Also, this is a business, it needs to be run as a business. As far as I’m concerned, it will always have racing at the heart of it, but there are a lot of days in the year when we are not racing, and it has to be utilised probably more than it has been in the past, and we are already working on that.” Black Bamboo won the last race at Limerick on


Limerick has played host to some recent greats, such as Faugheen, seen here winning in 2019 under Patrick Mullins


February 1. Emma White got back to her cottage, half past seven in the evening, drained, but happy with how the day had gone. “I fell into my cottage, poured myself a very large gin and tonic, drank that and went to bed.”


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