11:56AM, APR 21 2021
In a world where so often the big guns rule the roost, the smaller breeder can still make a sizeable impact. In the case of Renzo Forni, the breeder of Park Express Stakes winner Epona Plays, it has been an adventure nothing short of thrilling.
Having purchased the daughter of Australia's dam, New Plays, for just €10,000 from Jockey Hall Stud at the Goffs November Foals Sale in 2008, Forni's dreams to race his own horses in Ireland have been more than fulfilled.
His daughter, Raffaella, explains: "My dad Renzo came into the horse world thanks to some friends who rode near Lake Maggiore in Italy and hunted in Ireland every year, where they had whiskey and Guinness at the pub.