Ruby Walsh: run Cheltenham behind closed doors if necessary!

Foot and mouth - 2001. A year and three words I and anybody in agriculture or horse racing will never forget. The mass slaughter of farm animals in the UK, the outbreak on the Cooley peninsula here, the restrictions on the movement of livestock and bloodstock.

The cancellation of racing, firstly here and then in the UK. In Ireland it was a blanket ban, over there it was more of a regional one, depending on where the cases where were detected.