Aidan O’Brien’s Ballydoyle media days have become as reliable a sign of spring as daffodils but even on a glorious Monday morning there was no escaping a more sombre context this time.
The champion trainer revealed how the families of 20 Ukrainians who work either at the world-renowned training yard or at nearby Coolmore Stud have been flown to Ireland out of their war-torn homeland.
“The boss [John Magnier] brought over all their families, between here and Coolmore, put them all up; anyone that was working here that wanted to bring their families here,” O’Brien explained.
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- March 29, 2022
