Personal life: He is married to Noreen and they have three children, John, Kieran and Sue Ann. McManus is also a keen backgammon player and a big hurling fan. He supports many charitable projects in Co Limerick. Other interests: McManus does a lot of work for charity, including his Pro-Am golf tournament, which takes place every five years (it will be staged next in 2020) and has raised over 140 million euros. Limerick, in 1982 and built a big mansion there in 2004. Frank Berry is the longstanding McManus racing manager. McManus bought Martinstown Stud, Co. Barry Geraghty took over that position, with McCoy having an advisory role. He retained record-breaking 20-time champion Jump jockey A P McCoy as his main jockey from April, 2004 until the rider's retirement in April, 2015. A full 28 years after his first runner in the race, McManus finally achieved a long-held ambition when Don't Push It, trained by Jonjo O'Neill and ridden by A P McCoy, won the 2010 Grand National at Aintree He has had plenty of horses placed in the Randox Health Grand National too, as well lots of success during the Randox Health Grand National Festival. He has also won a G1 Cheltenham Gold Cup with Synchronised (2012) and three G1 Stayers' Hurdles with Baracouda (2002 & 2003) and More Of That (2014). He has amassed a record eight victories in the G1 Unibet Champion Hurdle - far more than any other owner. Mister Donovan provided him with his first Cheltenham Festival success in the 1982 Sun Alliance Novices' Hurdle and McManus has enjoyed 59 winners in total at the meeting - including five this year. He owns Jackdaws Castle, the Gloucestershire yard that Jonjo O'Neill trains from, and has invested heavily in improving facilities since purchasing the property in 2001. Racing interests: McManus purchased his first racehorse, Cill Dara, at the age of 26 and is the biggest Jump owner in terms of numbers in Britain and Ireland, with over 400 horses in training. In 2018, The Irish Independent valued McManus as having assets of €2.1 billion. He was in the news shortly after that because of his stake in the pub and restaurant operator Mitchells and Butler. With Coolmore supremo John Magnier, he bought a 28.7% stake in Manchester United through the Cubic Expression company before subsequently selling out to US tycoon Malcolm Glazer in 2005. McManus has a host of business interests including dealing on the financial markets from his Geneva, Switzerland, base (since circa 1994), part-ownership of the Sandy Lane Hotel in Barbados, where he also has a house and an extensive global property portfolio. He was dubbed 'the Sundance Kid' by journalist Hugh McIlvanney after landing a number of major gambles during the 1970s. He had another £4 on when Linden Tree wonp the Observer Gold Cup at 25/1, and £5 each-way at 33/1 for the Derby, when the horse beat all bar Mill Reef. McManus recalls one of his first bets as being on Merryman II in the 1960 Grand National when he was just nine, but the bet that changed his life was £4 on Linden Tree in a Newmarket maiden in 1970, the horse winning at 100/8. He left his father's plant hire business at the age of 20 to become a racecourse bookmaker, but then took the less well-trodden route of gamekeeper-turned-poacher when becoming a professional punter. Background: John Patrick 'J P' McManus attended the Christian Brothers School on Sexton Street, Limerick.

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