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Published 13:02 15 Nov 2021 GMT
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"I drove down Tuesday. The horse had a slight tendon injury and he had done similar job on horses for me before, most notably Seabass, who was second in the National, who got a tear on a tendon. That normally means rest, a lot of rest, but if you want to get a horse back a bit quicker… this guy scanned it and lasered it and got him back in six months rather than 12 months."
"I put him back in the box and came home. I knew, as the fella says, 'wrong place, wrong time'. I knew there was plenty of action going on. It would have been a lot easier if I wasn’t there…. You’re always half guilty by association if you’re in somewhere, aren’t you?"
"I wouldn't have had a lot of contact but no one ever said to me, 'you’d want to be careful of him’. Usually in the game someone would. I never heard any bad words about him."
Walsh was scrutinised by his RTÉ colleague Cahill, who didn't shy away from the hard questions.
https://twitter.com/RTEracing/status/1459868889836359683
"I have never in my life, nor my father before me, had a horse come up positive for anything.
"We’re old fashioned a bit that way. I often wish I had something to make them go f***ing quicker. Slow horses are slow horses."
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