Shark Hanlon confirms 28 of his horses to be sold ahead of ban
The Carlow trainer was handed a 10-month suspension by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board last month
John 'Shark' Hanlon has confirmed that 28 of his horses will head to the October HIT & Yearling Sale at Doncaster later this month.
The Carlow trainer was handed a 10-month suspension by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board last month after he was found to have acted in a manner that “caused significant prejudice to the integrity, proper conduct and good reputation of the sport of racing” in the removal of a dead horse from his yard earlier this year.
An appeal against the severity of the ban, which is due to start on December 1, is to be heard on Monday (October 14).
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Hanlon says he will send 28 horses to the sale on October 22. King George winner and the trainer's stable star Hewick is not among them.
Hanlon has admitted that the ban will mean his training business is “all over”. He said last month about sending horses to the sales: "I have no choice."
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He added: "I think that I'm being very badly done wrong with what they done to me but I've no say in that.
"I've 30 horses to go to the sales now. It took me 15-20 years to build my yard and now it's all over so we're appealing but I don't think it will make any difference.
"But I just feel that we're being awful done wrong. I took a horse from a field, was I to leave him in the field and let the foxes and dogs eat him? Was I to do what I done, bring him down, I had a rug on the horse, I had the horse covered and the rug fell off him or the tarp fell off him but like you're right and you're wrong.
"If you leave him in the field, you're wrong. If you bring him down the road, you're wrong so I just feel very hard done by the whole thing to tell you the truth."
The IHRB confirmed this week that Hanon’s appeal is in relation to the severity of the penalty rather than the sanction itself.
Hanlon can reapply for his licence after five months if certain IHRB conditions are met but he has already said he’s making plans to let his staff go.
The trainer has enjoyed great success in recent times with his €800 purchase Hewick, who won the King George Chase at Kempton last December and the American Grand National in 2022.
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