Privileged bloodstock owners must pay their share of tax like rest of us

WHEN IT comes to the bloodstock industry, the rest of us simply are not at the races!

A 30-year-old measure brought in by Charlie Haughey means that multi-millionaires have earned untold wealth from stallions for whom romance is a way of life.

Haughey was Minister for Finance in 1969, and also a stud owner himself, at the time when this nice little earner was let out of the stalls. An insignificant little detail like conflict of interest wouldn't have particularly worried him.