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Anthem Alexander with Aileen, Amy and Emily Lynam, Charles and Paul O’Callaghan, Sarah and Eddie Lynam, Pat Smullen and Noel O’Callaghan after winning the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot
TRM Trainer of the Quarter
EDWARD LYNAM
The TRM Trainer of the Quarter award has been won by Edward Lynam. Lynam and his team will receive a selection of products from the internationally-acclaimed range of TRM supplements worth €2,000, as well as a bottle of select Irish whiskey. WORDS: SUZY CROSSMAN PHOTOS: CAROLINE NORRIS
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DWARD Lynam made the history books at Royal Ascot this year, becoming the first trainer to ever win both the principle Group One sprint races with different horses. In total, Lynam sent four horses to the Royal meeting and returned to his County Meath base with a second consecutive win in the King’s Stand Stakes with Sole Power – a feat which hadn’t been achieved since the 1930s – and a victory with Slade Power in the Golden Jubilee Stakes. In addition, his team were also successful with the impressive two-year-old winner Anthem Alexander in the Group Two Queen Mary Stakes – it was not a bad week at the office! The pictures in the winner’s enclosure following Lynam’s three Royal Ascot successes in 2014 were of an altogether happier scene than last year, when celebrations following Sole Power’s first King’s Stand win were dampened by the absence of Lynam’s wife Aileen, who had been badly injured in a riding accident and was unable to attend due to multiple injuries including a broken back. Slade Power’s victory in the Diamond