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In the report of this on the BBC website it says
“David Elias KC, defending, said: “A prison sentence will not just impact immediate family but also impact employees, suppliers, and the people who own the horses he trains”.
Elias said Williams was of “exemplary character and 570 character references have been received since his conviction”.
Williams took over the family dairy farm as an 18-year-old before moving into racehorse training in 1996.
He established Evan Williams Racing in 2003 and became one of Wales’ most successful trainers with top-four finishes in five consecutive Grand Nationals at Aintree between 2009 and 2013. He trained Secret Reprieve, which won the 2020 Welsh Grand National at Chepstow.
Williams’s business employs about 30 people, and his wife took over his licence a day after he was convicted and at the start of the Cheltenham Festival.
His wife’s racing licence will expire at the end of next month and it would not be “viable” for her to run the business.
Elias said “Evan Williams is the business he has the training knowledge and there is no-one else to take over this business” which was described as the biggest rural employer in the Vale of Glamorgan.”
So it sounds as if the business is finished.