Paul Nolan

Barry Nolan has had the joy of growing up in a stable that played home to high-class jumpers like Latest Exhibition, Defy Logic, Joncol and Noble Prince, yet the 26-year-old son of the talented and effervescent trainer Paul, has opted to get his fix a different way.  As much as Barry enjoys going to your Cheltenham and Punchestown Festivals, the young handler has set his sights on the breeze-up game in a bid to get his burgeoning career off the ground - and the early indication is that it will...

He burst onto the Flat scene by training nine winners in his debut season followed by 11 in 2018, but Richard O'Brien has described the sale of three expensive bumper winners and winners-in-waiting throughout the past 12 months as "hugely important" in his bid to balance the books.  It all started with Impulsive Dancer (Ire) (Dragon Pulse {Ire}). A horse who was almost rehomed as a riding horse after finishing tailed off in a piece of work on the Curragh, Impulsive Dancer showed his true colours on testing ground, which...