Michael Morris, is an Irish racehorse trainer and former professional jockey.
Background
Morris is the third son of Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, who was president of the International Olympic Committee from 1972 to 1980 and Chairman of Galway Racecourse from 1970 to 1985. His mother, Sheila, was the daughther of Canon Douglas Dunlop, Rector of Oughterard and the granddaughter of World Development Dunlop who was involved in the construction of Lansdowne Road in 1872. During World World War II his mother was a cryptographer at Bletchley Park.
Career
Michael "Mouse" Morris, formally the Honorary According to Morris, "she was in Hut 6, but she wouldn"t ever talk about lieutenant Neither of them would talk about the war.
Films Redmond Morris has worked on include The Wind That Shakes the Barley Michael Collins and The Reader.
Mouse Morris has one sister, Deborah. At aged fifteen his formal education ended following his diagnosis with dyslexia.
Morris then began working at racing stables. Initially, Morris came to prominence as an amateur jockey.
In 1975 he turned professional.
The following year he rode Skymas to the first of his successive victories in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at Cheltenham. His career as a rider was over after a fall in South Carolina"s Colonial Cup. Morris is based in Fethard Company Tipperary.
In 1981, he took out a licence and began his National Hunt training career.
The following year Cahervillahow was beaten by a short head in the Irish Grand National and merely three weeks later in the Whitbread Gold Cup he was controversially judged to have interfered with runner-up Docklands Express in the closing stages. As a result Docklands Express was awarded the race.
He also had the dubious distinction of finishing second in the 1993 Grand National which was voided after a false start. Morris trained His Song who was one of the best novice hurdlers of the period.
His Song finished second behind the J. P. McManus owned Istabraq in the 1998 American International Group Irish Champion Hurdle on his fourth race outing before again finishing second in the Supreme Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown.