Ronan McNally will contest “a mixture of both” the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s guilty findings and the severity of his punishment after being cast out of racing on Tuesday.
In December, the IHRB referrals committee announced that a rash of integrity charges against the Armagh trainer – it was alleged he did not run stable stars Dreal Deal and The Jam Man on their merits before the pair made “extraordinary improvements” and concealed his ownership of horses with fellow trainer David Dunne – had been proven.
And it handed down the longest disqualification – a 12-year ban – ever given to an Irish licence holder, along with a €50,000 fine and the order to return €13,000 in prize money.
