ON May 18th, two weeks from today, Eddie McGrath plans to go racing at Ffos Las in Wales, and in doing so he will then have attended every racecourse in Ireland and Britain.

Enjoying retirement, Eddie goes racing several days each week and we caught up with him at Punchestown this week. “My previous claim to fame was that I was among the first class to graduate from the Irish National Stud’s thoroughbred breeding course in 1971. I actually did the course twice, which also might be a record!”