Bayan takes aimat Galway Hurdl

Gordon Elliott tells Caroline Whelan that he’s really looking forward to next week’s Galway Festival…

Gordon Elliott doesn’t hail from an equine background, but this is certainly not preventing his rise to the training summit.

The Meath man was catapulted into the limelight as a 29 year old rookie in 2007 following the victory of Silver Birch in the Aintree Grand National. As was widely publicised at the time, Elliott was yet to train a winner in his home country at that stage. However, visits to the winner’s enclosure have scarcely stopped since.