Resurgent Hanley very confident about the future

You can’t keep a good thing down. It is an aphorism that, as 2010 came to a close, seemed apt for Cameron Hanley, as he returned to winning ways, notably at the four-star shows in Salzburg, Austria and Dresden, Germany.

Six months earlier, however, the German-based Mayo rider’s life took on a different perspective. Then, he saw a door slam on his professional life with the decision by Turkey’s Sevil Sabanci to remove SIEC Livello and Hippica Kerman from Hanley in favour of a rider from her homeland.

Even looking back on it, the Claremorris rider cannot pinpoint anything that would have presaged Sabanci’s decision.