Dunlop forgot about £62,000 horse buy

LOBBYIST Frank Dunlop told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday how he invested £62,000 in a horse he had bought from his friend, well-known Carlow-based trainer Jim Bolger, 15 years ago — then forgot about the transaction.

He never saw the unnamed animal and didn’t get the ownership papers. Mr Bolger told him later the horse had died, breaking its neck in a collision with another horse.

As the horse was bred by him from one of his own mares, Mr Bolger said there was no documentation relating to the horse and he also owned the sire of the horse.