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Ronan McNally rarely stays out of the limelight for long. The former trainer orchestrated some audacious gambles prior to having his licence withdrawn by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) for a record period of 12 years for integrity breaches back in January 2023.
McNally appealed the original Referral Committee judgement in May 2023, but was largely unsuccessful. A number of his grounds for appeal were deemed inadmissible by the Appeals Body, as they should have been brought up at the original Referral Hearing and in the end McNally’s only small win at the Appeal was to have the final four years of his ban suspended.
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I'm from Clonalvy in Co Meath, a small rural area. I got into horses through my uncle James Harford. He always had horses down in the yard two minutes away from the house. They could be hunters, pre-trainers and breakers. When I was younger, I went down there and helped him out by riding a few quiet hunters around the roads. Then I got my own pony and that's how I got started. From there on, I did want to be a jockey. When I was younger I played a lot of soccer and gaelic, but from kind of eight or nine years of age when I got into horses, I wanted to be a jockey.
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