Tag: AP McCoy
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JP catches racing clan cold with Cobden call
There is a sneery element of Irish society and, it pains me to say, the media, whose greatest function in life seems to be bandwagoning on people’s misfortune. Or at the very least finding fault with every scintilla of what they do in life. Now read on… There’s one particular hack at national level –…
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The oddities of football management in England
A New Year’s Day family gathering – at which there are three televisions on duty – spanning World Championship Darts, a Premier League match and one in the English Championship – is not where you’d expect one of the greatest legends ever to grace the GAA to enter your mind. Now read on… But here…
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Suspect charged with Hunt family murders
A 26-year-old male has appeared in court in Cambridge, England, charged with the murders of the wife and two daughters of BBC and Sky Sports Racing commentator and broadcaster John Hunt on July 9th last. Kyle Clifford, of Enfield, North London, was thought to be the boyfriend of Louise Hunt (25) either at or shortly…
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They did it their way!
“Don’t ever f*****g tell me how to ride a horse again”. There’s not many lines of work in which one could so vehementally rail against instructions dispensed by an employer and hope to survive such a skirmish. You couldn’t exactly imagine WP Mullins or PF Nicholls or AP O’Brien reacting as serenely as the berated…
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Smashing the glass ceiling with the passing of the baton
The first jumps meeting of the season at Fairyhouse, usually in early October, is generally when the racing radar in this seat really becomes hyper sensitive. That isn’t to say one wouldn’t be attuned to goings on prior to that date. Just that the fixture in question is generally the cue for things to ratchet…
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DriveThru Sports Show – Ep 17
This episode was filmed over two evenings in order to cast an eye over as much of what was a truly remarkable Easter weekend’s racing both at Faryhouse and Cork. Three days packed with stories, each of which would be worthy of being a seasonal highlight in their own right.