Tag: Barry Connell
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2025
12.05: OLE OLE – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.37: LOVELY HURLING – EW – (MARK WALSH/COLM MURPHY) 1.12: MARINE NATIONALE (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 1.47: LOVE ME TENDER (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.22: EN OR – EW – (DAN KING/TONY MARTIN) 3.00: WILL THE WISE – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: ARCADIAN EMPORER (PADDY…
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Never doubt that they are watching…
I always feel a bit strange for a day or two after the men’s All Ireland SFC Final. Another chapter of the sporting year done. Summer gone before the farmers have even begun cutting winter wheat. “The hay is saved and Cork are bet the crowd do wildly roar”. Or at least that’s the way…
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Shoemark shown the door in the hunt for a fall guy
Eric Cantona, Trevor Brennan, Roy Keane, Graham Geraghty and Paul Carberry. All supremely gifted sportsmen, yet each as enigmatic as the last. So much so that managing their quirks became the most pivotal component in making their genius flourish. They all thought Sean (Boylan) was mad making Graham Meath captain. It ended up being his…
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Selections for Punchestown – Feb. 20th 2025
1.25: RATH GAUL BOY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.55: HIGH CLASS HERO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: WILL DO – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.55: WILLIAM MUNNY (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 3.25: JADE DE GRUGY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: DR EGGMAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.25: RUE TAYLOR – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/PAUL NOLAN) 5.00: ROJUCO MAC –…
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Michael O’Sullivan – A Tribute
The following is just an observation rather than a boast – when working around racing as close as is the case here, very quickly jockeys, trainers and owners names become instantly recognisable. And then, every so often, a new name will appear that will necessitate a bit of research. Now read on… The most recent…
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Do not discount the others
There’s something very fitting about what you will read hereafter appearing around the same time as the completion of the third round of soccer’s FA Cup. Therein have been some of the greatest upsets ever seen in any sport. Such as Northampton’s expulsion of Manchester United or Arsenal being ousted by Wrexham a decade and…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2024
12.05: WENDROCK – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: IT’S FOR ME (DARYL JACOB/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.10: MARINE NATIONALE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 1.45: ROMEO COOLIO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: LIEBER NICC – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.00: PANDA BOY – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/MARTIN BRASSIL) 3.30: GOLD HELP ME – EW…
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Selections for Roscommon – Aug. 20th 2024
5.20: TIMOURID (JOEY SHERIDAN/PAUL FLYNN) 5.50: J’ADORE CHRIS (BILLY LEE/PADDY TWOMEY) 6.20: SUGAR CLUB (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 6.50: CLEVER AND COOL – EW – (RORY CLEARY/JIM BOLGER) 7.20: GIVEMEHOPEROSA – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/JACK DAVISON) 7.50: TRAPALANDA (WESLEY JOYCE/PAUL FAHEY) 8.20: AVONDALE – EW – (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/BARRY CONNELL)
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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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Selections for Punchestown – Feb. 5th 2024
1.20: COKO BEACH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.50: LE MALMASON (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.20: SUPREME RULER – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 2.50: LINDEN ARDEN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.20: FIVEONFIVE – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/CIAN COLLINS) 3.55: LIZLUCKY – EW – (SARAH CAVANAGH (7)/PAT FOLEY) 4.30: LUCKY LYREEN (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT)