Cheltenham Festival-winning trainer Patrick Neville was made personally bankrupt at a court hearing last month, it has been confirmed.
An order published by Darlington County Court, seen by the Racing Post, shows that Neville’s former associate Rebecca Dennis was successful in her petition to the court, arising out of a loan of €110,000 she made to the trainer in 2022, which remains unpaid.
The news comes just ahead of Thursday’s return to the track for Neville’s best horse The Real Whacker, who is declared to take part in a 3m handicap hurdle at Perth.
Dennis owns a quarter-share in the nine-year-old, who caused an upset at the 2023 festival when beating Gerri Colombe in the Brown Advisory Novices’ Chase. He also won last year’s Charlie…