Gold Cup winning trainer buys Connemara jumper

IF Carrahulla Lad does as well as some of the other horses which Henrietta Knight has purchased in Ireland, he will be a champion.

One of England’s top National Hunt trainers, she is famed as the trainer of Best Mate, which last March became the second three times winner in the history of the Cheltenham Gold Cup.

She bought Best Mate after seeing him perform in a Co Waterford point to point race, and Carrahulla Lad is her latest Irish purchase, after he won the Loose Jumping competition at last week’s Connemara Pony Show at Clifden.