Kanturk's Mick Winters: A man who trains in black and white but paints his life in colour
Trainer Michael Winters gives Sayce Gold a roll after cantering at Beale Strand in Co Kerry. Picture: Healy Racing
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In the course of a relatively short conversation, Michael Winters twice returns to a situation that seems to be bothering him. There is no room for an extra passenger in the lorry. It’s a week before the Cheltenham Festival and he is sending over a very live contender in Chatham Street Lad. These are the anxious days when patience is scarce and dreams can die on the back of a simple question. Is that a skin rash? Did he step on a stone just then? Did he scope dirty? But it’s a different question that’s troubling Mick Winters, and it’s not about his horse.
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