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New trainer Hannah Roach out to add to impressive tally at Chaddesley Corbett
Hannah Roche: will send six runners to Chaddesley Corbett on Sunday
Hannah Roach was at an airport waiting to fly home from a holiday with her mum, when she received a call from her boss.
Joe O’Shea is invariably unorthodox, and the offer he wanted to put to his young groom, aged just 21, could not wait. Roach recalls: "Joe said, 'I want to retire and I want you to take over [at the yard he ran in Cheshire]'.
"I replied, 'Joe, I’m at an airport in Cyprus!,' but he said, 'It’s something to think about'."
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