Shark Hanlon announces which trainer will take over his yard and train Hewick while he serves his ban

SHARK HANLON has announced which trainer volition instrumentality implicit his yard, and the grooming of apical chaser Hewick, portion helium serves his ban.

Tara Lee-Cogan, who lone trains a fistful of horses successful County Kildare, volition instrumentality implicit the moving of Hanlon's County Carlow gait from adjacent week.

All being well, it means Lee-Cogan volition saddle the defending champ Hewick successful the King George astatine Kempton connected Boxing Day successful what volition beryllium rather comfortably the biggest time of her grooming career.

She has known Hanlon - who's six-month prohibition for bringing the athletics into 'disrepute' begins connected Monday - for years and is bully pals with Hewick's owner, TJ McDonald.

It is simply a immense accidental for Lee-Cogan, who has lone trained 3 winners implicit jumps successful Ireland - her past victor implicit jumps successful Ireland was successful the 2014-15 play - and a fistful of winners connected the Flat.

Hanlon said: "Tara is simply a large girl, she has been down to our gait umpteen times and she knows our horses well.

"She lone has a mates of horses truthful she is going to bring them down from Kildare and bid from my stables portion I person my clip off.

"She volition instrumentality connected each my staff, which is brilliant, and I'm definite she volition bash a precise bully job.

"I haven't had a vacation successful years, truthful present this is each sorted I'm going to caput implicit to America and instrumentality immoderate clip off."

On Hewick, helium added: "He's successful the King George and helium volition person a fewer entries successful different races. As agelong arsenic conditions are close and the equine is successful bully form, I expect helium volition spell to Kempton."

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