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Mangan concerned for flat racing

Jimmy Mangan with daughter Jane ManganJimmy Mangan with daughter Jane Mangan
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Television pundit Jane Mangan spoke about her concerns for flat racing and the possible safe resumption of racing as the retired amateur jockey also reports 2003 Grand National winner Monty's Pass to be in excellent health.

Mangan, daughter of Monty's Pass' trainer Jimmy Mangan, said “it is really the flat guys you'd be considering at this stage; we've had a good winter with the national hunt horses but it is the flat guys you'd be thinking of.

“If people want to ease back into it without the crowds, we have the template for it. Essentially day by day they made changes to it (behind closed doors racing) and they have essentially perfected it.

“Everybody knows it is important to get it resumed as safely and quickly as possible and I've no doubt if they decided to go behind closes doors as a transition period everybody would support that.”

Monty's Pass famously won the 2003 Aintree Grand National for the family's small Co Cork yard and Mangan added “Monty's Pass is 26 years of age and is still here in the yard; he is the first horse we go to first every morning to leave out in the paddock because he is so impatient.

“He basically fulfilled an awful lot of dreams here in Conna and we'll be forever indebted to him for that.”