Ruby Walsh: When there is a will, there is a way...

Ryan Moore — the big winner under government’s new quarantine rules.Picture: Healy Racing.

Sat, 05 Sep, 2020 - 06:30

Ruby Walsh is one of the most successful jump jockeys in racing history and is now a high‑profile analyst and broadcaster.

Ryan Moore’s brief quarantine in Tipperary came to a quick and early close on Thursday morning when the news broke that submissions made to government by HRI had been accepted and that jockeys who were booked to ride in either Group or Grade 1 races would be exempt from the 14-day quarantine rules that are currently in place.

That’s a pretty simple explanation of it, but the reality is that Irish Jockeys wishing to travel abroad and foreign Jockeys wishing to come in will be allowed to do so provided they are booked to ride in Group 1 races on the flat or their equivalent Grade 1 races over jumps.