From the archive: ‘Since before I could remember, I was going to the races in a pram’ - Barry Connell

This article was first published in December 2013. Two of the Dublin-born former amateur jockey’s horses, Marine Nationale and Good Land, are competing in this year’s Cheltenham Festival which takes place until Friday. On Tuesday, Marine Nationale won the Sky Bet Supreme Novices' Hurdle.

Fund manager and racehorse owner Barry Connell's first involvement in horseracing actually precedes his earliest memory of any horse of any description. Before he could walk, the young Connell was making ...