Michael Foley

Owner-breeder Michael Foley, who has nurtured the pedigree of Rockingham hero Genesis for 40 years now, shares what success in the valuable handicap means Blazing a trail in Sunday's Rockingham at the Curragh, the Mick Mulvany-trained Genesis (Prince Of Lir) provided Michael Foley, one of the last remaining Corinthian owner-breeders left in Ireland, with by far his biggest day in the sun. That €100,000 Irish Derby day victory came exactly 40 years after Foley was first introduced to the pedigree after his father purchased the foundation mare Frivolity, who hailed...