Tag: Champion Hurdle
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Even Noah couldn’t fight the tide without his ark
Sometimes you witness, either in person or on a screen, happenings in sport which nobody has to underline the importance of. Often the significance of which stretches well beyond the bounds of the sport concerned. For example, the penalty shootout in Genoa in 1990, Katie Taylor’s Olympic gold in London or Dawn Run winning the…
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Selections for Kilbeggan – Aug. 25th 2023
4.35: NOTTODAYBOBO (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: SHAJAK (MARK WALSH/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.35: BUTTONS AND BOWS – EW – (MARK WALSH/PAT FLYNN) 6.10: GIVEAGO (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.45: FRGILLIGANS VOYAGE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/JOHN CARR) 7.20: QUANTUM REALM (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.55: LISADELL LASS (L. DONNELLY (4)/WILLIE MULLINS)
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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)
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One viewpoint that didn’t take long to be proven right
Stories such as those of the late Tom Foley and Oliver Brady or Mick Winters or Anthony Knott across the water are what make National Hunt racing the special part of life it is for so many of us. For those of us imbued with a love of racing running through our veins, stories like…
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Trusting your own judgement and reserving it on others
One of the perhaps lesser known drawbacks of dealing with depression, or indeed any mental health difficulty is the ferocity and rapidity with which it can decimate a body’s confidence. Conversely, it can then take millennia to rebuild. Thus, having got myself physically and mentally strong enough to go to the Fairyhouse Winter Festival, there…
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Would You Like To Buy My Books?
Over the last couple of years I have written and published two books – “Heroics And Heartache” and ” Rolling Down Memory Lane”. Details about both and how you can purchase them are contained within.
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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…