Category: RACING
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Quiet man Heskin calls time on fine career
Hunter Chases and cross country races – it seems there’s no grey areas with them. You’re either a fan thereof or your not. I am totally in the former category. Thanks to the majesty of Enda Bolger, the late, great J. T. McNamara, Nina Carberry, Jamie Codd, Derek O’Connor and, more recently, Keith Donoghue. And,…
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Frost set for the French heat
In a development that might be – in one way – a tad surprising but in another shouldn’t be at all, Simon Munir and Isaac Souede have announced the appointment of Bryony Frost as retained rider of their National Hunt horses in France. 29-year-old Frost, who, has, for a long time been a key member…
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Good doctor? Nutty Professor more like
The lunatics are trying to take over the asylum. Colm O’Rourke’s notions about splitting Dublin in two has finally been usurped as the most madcap, lampoonable sports proposal out there. By a doctor no less. Now read on… The man Matt Chapman of Sky Sports and ITV Racing described as “The Good Doctor” – Newland…
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The page of history turns in bid to Folly Master(s)
A nondescript handicap, curtain raiser to a mundane midweek card with a €6,000 cut to the winner is unlikely to remain in the minds of many for long. Yet it provided a moment of history. The turning of a page. Beginning the next chapter in the most glorious anthology in the history of Irish sport.…
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Seismic Cheltenham shakeup as Hill’s Constitution questioned?
Cheltenham betting markets could potentially be tossed into turmoil after it emerged that Constitution Hill worked poorly at Kempton this morning. While there’s no such thing as a certainty in racing, Nicky Henderson’s stable star looked primed to be the closest to the phenomenon there might ever be in the Champion Hurdle. However, the bombshell…
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Hewick and The Shark strike a blow for the ordinary folk
New Years Day in 2005, and the concluding bumper threw up a local derby of sorts. In that the market was headed by the Tucker Geraghty trained, Jill Geraghty ridden All’s Rosie and Kilbreena. Trained by Des McDonogh for Dunboyne butcher Pat Macken. It may well have been around the same time that the Tom…
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Foibles of small fields but food for thought
When playing into the wind, in sport or life in general, it’s always safest to keep it simple and stick to what you know best. If you’re driving out, hold what you have and don’t look back. If, on the other hand, you’re fighting a rearguard action, hold your ground, trust yourself and keep it…
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Dependable Denis hangs up the saddle
Temptation was to begin this piece by declaring Denis O’Regan an honourary Meath man. Such was the duration of his career spent in the Royal County and the amount of winners the Youghal native partnered for leading figures in the racing fraternity based in the locality. There’s no doubt, either, that what was a stellar…
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We could all do with the survival instinct of a Mouse!
Don’t worry, what you’re about to read is not an ode to the furry little b*****ds that tend to make themselves uninvited lodgers at this time year. Said rodents gave production to the type of local yarn every country town around germinates over time. Before my time, there was a man – I won’t mention…
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Selections for Navan – Oct. 18th 2023
1.15: TIFFANY MAE – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 1.45: ART OF UNITY – EW – (JAMIE POWELL (3)/MUIRDEACH KELLY) 2.15: HEAVENLY BEING (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 2.45: NOUVEL ESPOIR – EW – (COLIN KEANE/JIMMY BARCOE) 3.20: RATHBRANCHURCH (GARY CARROLL/MICK MULVANY) 3.55: HUTTON – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.30: VICEREGENT – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY…