Ronan McNally: Irish trainer charged with causing serious damage to horse racing by IHRB | Racing News

Irish trainer Ronan McNally has had several charges “proven” by the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, including ‘causing serious damage to the interests of horseracing in Ireland’.

Charges proven include using the racecourse as a training ground by running horses insufficiently schooled, in order to obtain handicap marks not reflective of their ability.

McNally has also been charged with deliberately permitting The Jam Man to run other than on his merits when riding the horse in July 2020 at Navan.

The IHRB is also satisfied that McNally, through the following conduct as a licensed trainer caused serious damage to the interests of horseracing in Ireland, having been charged with passing information about the condition and wellbeing of Dreal Deal to allow others profit from betting on the horse with a betting organisation.

The Jam Man, also owned by McNally, won the valuable Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan in 2020 and has career earnings of just shy of £200,000, while Dreal Deal won the Grade Two Moscow Flyer Novice Hurdle in January 2021.

A date for a sanctions hearing will be set in due course.

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