Horse racing trumps hurling for Gearóid O’Loughlin

Gearoid O’Loughlin has made a seamless transition from hurling star with Clare to a rising force in the horse racing world. Picture: Healy Racing

The link between GAA and horseracing has always been significant, long before Willie McCreery was galloping up and down Croke Park and then becoming a Group One-winning trainer.

There is no great mystery to it, given the GAA’s predominance in rural areas, and those rustic landscapes invariably being inhabited by a horse or pony of some nature.