Tag: John Kiely
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Selections for Tipperary – July 17th 2022
1.50: HIGHSTREET ROLLER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/TOM GIBNEY) 2.22: DON DIABLO – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.57: REBELLIOUS GALE (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN) 3.32: MICA MALPIC (JOHN SHINNICK (4)*/ENDA BOLGER) 4.07: L’IMPERTINENT (SIMON TORRENS/ENDA BOLGER) 4.41: FANCY FOUNDATIONS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.16: PAT’S PICK – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/STUART CRAWFORD)
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Guts and effort not enough to trump instinct and knowhow
Limerick… 0-27 Galway… 1-21 Inches. That’s often all the separates glory from gloom. If the break for you, it’ll be the former scenario. The ball breaking one inch the wrong way and your dreams are dashed. Finite margins. Early on, Conor Cooney fails to rise a 25 metre free, wasted. HawkEye takes a point apiece…
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Selections for Leopardstown – June 16th 2022
5.15: WITH LOVE (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/KEVIN COLEMAN) 5.45: NOTFORALONGTIME – EW – (MARK ENRIGHT/LAURA HOURIGAN) 6.15: FOCUS REQUIRED – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/LUKE COMER) 6.50: MUDAMER (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 7.20: GOLDEN TICKET – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/ANDY OLIVER) 7.50: COMO PARK (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: HI STRANGER – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (7)/JOHN KIELY)
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Selections for The Curragh – June 1st 2022
5.10: SEGOMO (GAVIN RYAN/DONNACHA O’BRIEN) 5.45: AGE OF KINGS (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 6.15: ZANIYKA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.45: LOVEDAY – EW – (NATHAN CROSSE (3)/WILLIE MCCREERY) 7.15: THE NAME’S JOCK – EW – (JAKE COEN (7)/JOHN KIELY) 7.50: SCHIELE (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: SUNSET NOVA – EW – (AMY J. HAYES/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Seeing too much of yourself in others
My mind often fluctuates in thought regarding how Meath’s greatest ever team – that at their zenith between 1986 and 1991 – would fair out in the Gaelic football of today. Part of me thinks they wouldn’t last jig time owing to a combination of snowflakes having the game sanitised to a point of no…
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Selections for Tramore – Apr. 10th 2022
2.15: HIDE AND SEEK (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.47: LIFE IN THE PARK (MIKEY O’CONNOR (2)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.22: KILBARRY CHIANTI – EW – (MIKEY O’CONNOR (5)/CON O’KEEFFE) 3.57: FIGHTER ALLEN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.30: RAGNAR LODBROK – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.00: GOLDEN FERRET – EW – (CONOR MAXWELL/PAUL STAFFORD) 5.30: GLORY LISS…
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Sports Wordle No. 19
A man liable to train a winner in either Waterford or Limerick https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=fcyqvmazp
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Selections for Naas – Jan. 30th 2022
12.40: RUN WILD FRED (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.10: REGINA DRACONNES – EW – (JACK FOLEY (5)/TOM GIBNEY) 1.40: SAINT FELICIEN (ROBBIE POWER/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: CHAMPION GREEN (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.40: BRUNELLO (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.10: RAMILLIES – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.40: THE TACK ROOM – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/JOHN KIELY) 4.10: WESTERN…
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Selections for The Curragh – Sept. 26th 2021
1.25: MY EYES ADORE YOU (CHRIS HAYES/FOZZY STACK) 2.00: BARUD – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE (3)/DERMOT WELD) 2.30: ALBULA (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.00: RULING (SHANE CROSSE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 3.35: LISMORE – EW – (BILLY LEE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.05: LINE OUT – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (7)/JOHN KIELY) 4.35: STRONG JOHNSON – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HOMER…
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Selections For Down Royal – Aug. 27th 2021
3.55: LUNAR POWER (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 4.25: MIGHTY MEGGSIE (PAUL TOWNEND/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.00: MISTY MILLIE – EW – (CONOR ORR/GARVAN DONNELLY) 5.30: DECIMAL BAY – EW – (BRIEN KANE (5)/WILLIAM DURKAN) 6.00: GO ANOTHER ONE (JACK FOLEY (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 6.30: NYMPHHALL (PHILIP DONOVAN (7)/JOHN RYAN) 7.00: HI STRANGER (J.L. GLEESON/JOHN KIELY)