'I've had enough of it!' - veteran trainer Walsh retires after 60 years

A full 60 years after sending out his first runners, Ireland's longest-serving trainer John Joe Walsh has called time on his career at the age of 83. The popular handler's yard at Kilbyrne House in north County Cork will be taken over by his son Brendan.

Walsh took out his licence in 1962 - a year ahead of fellow doyen Kevin Prendergast - and rode and trained his first winner, Grub Stake, in a Clonmel bumper on March 7, 1963.

His announcement comes almost exactly 26 years after Lord Singapore provided him with one of his marquee victories in the Troytown Chase at Navan under David Casey in 1996.