'I'm jumps through and through but the Flat is great business'
Brian Sheerin speaks to in-form trainer Conor O'Dwyer
After enduring a fallow period in which he trained just two winners in as many years and went the whole of 2015 without a victory, dual Gold Cup-winning jockey Conor O'Dwyer has welcomed his stable's recent run of form and described the "great business" that training Flat horses represents.
The Friarstown-based trainer secured his fourth win on the bounce at Ballinrobe on Monday evening with the JP McManus-owned Don't Let Go, O'Dwyer's eighth winner of the year.
Half of the 51-year-old's wins this year have come on the Flat, and O'Dwyer is embracing the opportunities that the discipline presents.
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