Tag: Arkle Challenge Trophy Chase

  • Selections for Cheltenham Day 1 2023

    Selections for Cheltenham Day 1 2023

    1.30: MARINE NATIONALE (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 2.10: EL FABIOLO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: THE BIG BREAKAWAY – EW – (BRENDAN POWELL/JOE TIZZARD) 3.30: VAUBAN – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: BRANDY LOVE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: BAD – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/BEN PAULING) 5.30: MISTER COFFEY – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/NICKY HENDERSON)

  • Jack De Bromhead – R. I. P.

    Jack De Bromhead – R. I. P.

    For many of us, sport consumes and envelopes so much of our lives that it can be very easy, and dangerous, to lose sight of the fact that it is just that. Only Sport. The shot that looked over but was waved wide, the putt which circled the hole but lipped out or the punt…

  • Fairyhouse off as weather causes further havoc

    Today’s meeting at Fairyhouse was called off due to the Co Meath venue being unfit for racing. Though not a surprise, it’s another setback to whatever semblance of normalcy there remains to aid one’s circumnavigation of the big ball on which we reside during these present times. More than that, however, it’s a blow to…