Julian Lloyd

It was hard to imagine that we'd ever be able to smuggle a photograph of the late, great singer/songwriter Nick Drake into the pages of TDN, but thanks to the multi-talented Julian Lloyd, we have been presented with the perfect excuse to do just that. Lloyd, longtime manager of Staffordstown Stud in Ireland for Kirsten Rausing, retired at the end of last year, and his career in bloodstock was honoured with a Special Recognition Award at the recent ITBA Awards. Perhaps unbeknown to many in the horse world, however, is...

The cream of Irish Thoroughbred breeding was recognised on Sunday night, with the headline act being Tally-Ho Stud's Tony and Anne O'Callaghan, who were inducted into the ITBA Hall of Fame. Last year's ITBA National Breeding & Racing Awards provided one of the bloodstock social media events of lockdown, but after two years of virtual presentations, the prestigious awards ceremony returned to its rightful home of The Heritage hotel in Co Laois. The O'Callaghans also took home one of the main Flat awards when being named the joint-winners of 2-year-old...