Luckily it's in the upper part of his left-fore tendon so it's a good area, as tendon injuries go, to recover from. He's a clear-winded horse and he's an athletic horse so I would say he's got a very good chance of making a full recovery and, please God, in time for the 2007 Gold Cup - we are going to give him all the time he needs.
"Tom Taaffe" is an Irish racehorse trainer based at Portree Stables, Boston, Ardclough, Straffan, in County Kildare.
He began training in the 1994/95 jumps season, having had a successful career as a professional National hunt racing/jump jockey for the Arthur Moore stable.
The son of jockey and trainer, Pat Taaffe, who famously rode Arkle to a Cheltenham Gold Cup treble in the 1960s and trained 1974 Gold Cup winner Captain Christy, he emulated his father's success by training Kicking King to win the same race in 2005. The horse also had back to back wins for Taaffe in the King George VI Chase in 2004 and 2005. Taaffe also trained Ninetieth Minute, who won the Coral Cup at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival.
Other notable horses trained by him are Emotional Moment, Solar System (now retired), Tumbling Dice and Secret Native. The yard's jockey of choice is Tom Ryan.
Statistics on [http://www.irish-racing.com Irish-Racing.com] show that Taaffe has had an amazing strike rate of 15% in Ireland since 2001.
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