'I'm tired and burnt out' - trainer Robert Tyner makes shock decision to quit

Robert Tyner, one of Irish jump racing's most respected trainers and among the most dominant point-to-point handlers of all time, is to wind down his business in Kinsale, County Cork due to being "burnt out from working harder than ever before" and rising costs.

Tyner, who runs the operation along with his wife Mary, has trained 246 winners on the track since a 7lb-claiming Norman Williamson guided Dream Of Gold to his first win under rules in a Thurles bumper on February 16, 1989.

In the intervening 33 years he has earned a reputation for plotting big-race coups with tremendous accuracy, most recently plundering back-to-back runnings of the Goffs Land Rover Bumper with the ill-fated Coeur De Lion and Vision Des Flos, and has been rewarded with the regular patronage of JP McManus.