WOOD sculptor John Hayes has completed a commission for John Nallen of the Gold Cup winner Minella Indo and the Grand National winner Minella Times which are now in situ outside Nallen’s Hotel Minella in Clonmel.

“Yes I really enjoyed doing these horses, I had never done anything like this. The wood is from a wonderful Lebanon Cedar which had fallen. It’s rare and a great wood to carve and holds the design well especially with muscular subjects like these and where you also want to show the fragility of their legs.