Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer Eugene O’Sullivan says the rising cost of fuel and Brexit is making it tougher for Irish handlers to send horses over to the UK.
The Cork trainer landed a 2m½f contest at Worcester on Monday when Hazran won the Royal Equestrian Bedding Novices' Handicap Chase under jockey Richie McLernon.
But O’Sullivan says sending three horses over to run in England, two at Worcester and one at Cartmel, in recent days cost him £1,000 in diesel and added that unless its price drops, he may have to stop sending horses across the sea to run.
