Keeping racing on stable footing

There was a time when a micro-economy depended on Denis Brosnan.

Keeping racing on stable footing

As a student in UCC, his classmates’ Saturday nights often depended on the success of his horse-racing choices. Memory suggests the Kerryman secured them more profitable Saturdays than otherwise, but his passion for horses goes back even further.

“In boarding school in St Brendan’s, you didn’t get out from one end of the term to the next, so you’d send out your bets — a shilling — with the day pupils. So I’d go back that far.

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