Australia’s leading syndicate operator has issued an apology after posting a video containing “shameful” comments which disparaged one of Ireland’s most respected female trainers.
Australian Bloodstock has sourced its best horses from Europe and won last year’s Melbourne Cup with ex-French horse Gold Trip.
This month it announced the recruitment of last year’s Irish 2,000 Guineas runner-up New Energy, who was trained by Co Meath trainer Sheila Lavery for her brother John Lavery, to join the top Australian stable of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace to be aimed at the prestigious Cox Plate.