Career
McManus's first really big win was a horse called Mister Donovan at Cheltenham. Mister Donovan was the second favourite and won the race after the favourite Angelo Salvini whipped around at the start. McManus over the years was close to jockeys A. Brown, Mr T. Busteed, Mr N. Madden, Mr T. M. Walsh, Mr F. Codd, C. Roche, Ron Barry, B. Fletcher, T. Carmody, D. Gillespie, M. Flynn, Dermot Browne, F. Berry, John Francome and others and the legendary race commentator Peter O'Sullevan who helped him meet "the right people", among them former Vernons pools boss Robert Sangster. He says he "rarely bets" these days and when he does he usually describes them as "little bets." He says betting is "not an obsession". His distinctive green-and-gold-hooped racing colours are those of the South Liberties GAA Club.
The most famous of his horses is Istabraq, a three-time winner of the Champion Hurdle. He has had no other horses in training with Istabraq's trainer, Aidan O'Brien, since O'Brien's move to Ballydoyle. Fifteen-time Champion jockey Tony McCoy is retained as his stable jockey. Former champion jockey Jonjo O'Neill trains some of his horses at the Jackdaws Castle facility which McManus helped finance. He has often appeared at race meetings in recent years with the British actor Clive Owen.
McManus's horse Don't Push It, ridden by McCoy and trained by O'Neill, won the 2010 Grand National Steeplechase
in 2012 McManus's horse Synchronised won the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Synchronised went on to run in The 2012 John Smiths Grand National with Champion jockey Tony McCoy on the 14th April 2012. Synchronised threw McCoy on the way to the starting area, after being caught and veterinary checks were performed Synchronised was re-entered. Sadly he fell at Becher's Brook and after running loose broke a leg in a later fall and subsequentquently had to be put down.
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