Tag: Big Red Bench
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Don’t Panic! Corporal Jones promoted to Captain!
“Permission to speak, Sir?” was how the excitable Lance Corporal Jack Jones would prevail on the often mithered Captain Mainwaring to allow him go off on one of his meandering rambles, urging calm by imploring all and sundry to “Don’t Panic”! even though he was doing the polar opposite of his own advice himself. If…
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Selections for Cork – Aug. 18th 2023
4.15: SWEETEST (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.50: NOT TOO REAL BAD – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TOM MULLINS) 5.20: TARAWA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 5.52: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT – EW – (COLIN KEANE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.27: JUPITER ROCK (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 7.02: GYPSEY WOMAN (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.37: LAW LADY – EW – (SHANE FOLEY/TOM MULLINS) 8.12:…
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Selections for Cork – Aug. 7th 2023
2.00: MOON RISE BEAUTY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.33: BROOKE (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN) 3.08: MISTY’S GIFT (BEN HARVEY/HARRY KELLY) 3.43: MOYVILLA LASS – EW – (GARY NOONAN (5)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.18: SURPRISE PACKAGE (SAM EWING/PETER FAHEY) 4.53: BETTY DUTTON – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/EDDIE O’GRADY) 5.28: SONNY DON’T GO AWAY (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Cork – Apr. 21st 2023
1.58: SEA GARDENS (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.33: YOU OWE ME MONEY (DYLAN CURRAN (7)/DARREN BUNYAN) 3.08: TERM OF ENDEARMENT (WAYNE LORDAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.43: NATIONS CALL (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 4.18: SERIOUS CHALLENGE (LUKE MCATEER (3)/JIM BOLGER) 4.50: DUBAI SPECTRE (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.23: TIMOURID (JAMIE POWELL (5)/PAUL FLYNN)
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Selections for Cork – Apr. 10th 2023
1.50: SIR ARGUS (KIERAN CALLAGHAN (7)/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: ITSALLABOUTEVE – EW – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/BENNY WALSH) 3.00: TAKE ALL – EW – (AMBROSE MCCCURTIN/JOHN HANLON) 3.35: MA HONEY (BRIAN LAWLESS (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.10: TOHELLORTOCONNACHT – EW – (BRIAN LAWLESS (2*) /EOIN MCCARTHY) 4.45: ULTIMATE OPTIMIST (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 5.20: WHATS UP DARLING (HARRY SWAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT)…
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Selections for Cork – Apr. 9th 2023
1.10: LUMINOUS LIGHT – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/ANTHONY MCCANN) 1.45: ALL ABOUT LUCY – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 2.20: SOLE PRETENDER (MICHAEL O’CONNOR (5)/NORMAN LEE) 2.55: LARGY DEBUT (DONAGH MEYLER/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.30: FERONILY (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 4.05: FLYING SCOTSMAN – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.40: ATLANTIAN – EW – (PETER CARBERRY/TONY MARTIN)…
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Selections for Cork – Apr. 8th 2023
1.15: SIBYL CHARM (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.45: SOMETHING NICE (GARY CARROLL/MICK MULVANY) 2.20: TIYMARA (BEN COEN/JOHNNY MURTAGH) 2.55: SAN AER – EW – (BEN COEN/TOM MULLINS) 3.30: TENEBRISM (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.05: ALABAMA (RYAN MOORE/AIDAN O’BRIEN) 4.40: HARRY’S HILL – EW – (WAYNE HASSETT (10)/MARTIN HASSETT) 5.15: BILBOA (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/LIAM BROWNE)
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Closer but still not over the line
Meath…0-11 Cork…2-08 This writer has no idea where the saying ‘Close but no cigar’ originated from but at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday lunchtime it was a case of close but not over the line for the Meath as they slipped to another narrow defeat in the final round of the Lidl Ladies NFL. The…
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Selections for Cork – Mar. 23rd 2023
2.05: CALICO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: KNOCKRAHA LASS – W/O FAV – (AMBROSE MCCURTIN/BENNY WALSH) 3.15: CROWSATEDAPPLETART (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/MICK WINTERS) 3.50: FRANCISCAN ROCK (RICKY DOYLE/MICHAEL MORRIS) 4.25: KINGSTON KID – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 5.00: PURE NOTIONS (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.30: BLIZZARD OF OZ (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Selections for Cork – Jan. 7th 2023
12.27: DUBAI CLOVER – EW – (CONOR MCNAMARA/JOHN MCCONNELL) 1.02: VICEREGENT (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 1.37: HANS GRUBER – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/IAN DONOGHUE) 2.12: JIVING JERRY – EW – (CATHAL LANDERS/JIMMY BARCOE) 2.47: HARD RAIN (PHILIP ENRIGHT/JAMES DULLEA) 3.22: WA WA – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 3.57: FANCY GIRL (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)