Ken Condon: I spent five years with John Oxx, it was the perfect place to learn

Ken Condon studied accountancy but the numbers just did not add up. He had been tempted by thoroughbreds.

That decision to walk out of an office and into a stable was spectacularly rewarded on a sunny Saturday afternoon on the Curragh when his first winner of the year came in a Classic.

When you see reporters rushing over to a trainer to try to shake his hand in the aftermath of a big race it tells you all you need to know. Condon is a gentleman in every sense of the word. One of the good guys.