O'Leary: top horses off on their holidays and they won't be coming back early

Tiger Roll, Delta Work and Samcro will be among the horses making their way back to Gigginstown House Stud over the coming weeks, according to Eddie O'Leary, who has backed Horse Racing Ireland's Covid-19 contingency plan.

However, O'Leary revealed that none of Gigginstown's top horses will have their summer holidays cut short over the prospects of a lucrative autumn Grand National meeting being staged at Fairyhouse at the beginning of next season.

O'Leary also ruled out running their horses on the Flat this summer as well as keeping horses in training for Auteuil's Grand Steeple-Chase de Paris and Prix de la Barka meetings, scheduled for late May and early June, but almost certainly set to be postponed or cancelled.