'I've had wonderful owners all through my career, but now they're dropping away'

An hour-long conversation with Kevin Prendergast involves a whistle-stop tour of 70 years of racing history, interspersed with his observations on the contemporary state of Irish racing.

Prendergast has made time for an interview during a day involving the same routine of stable life he has maintained since a spell in Australia in the early 1950s, the preface to a nine-year stint as assistant trainer to his father Paddy and nigh-on 60 years as one of Ireland's leading trainers.

Time flies by. There is so much more to talk about. I ask if he is still playing golf.