1.30: LOSSIEMOUTH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.10: PIED PIPER – EW – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: FAVORI DU CHAMPDOU – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.30: GALLOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: CHRISS DREAM – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: IMPERVIOUS (BRIAN HAYES/COLM MURPHY) 5.30: NO ORDINARY JOE – EW – (LUCA… Read More Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 4
1.30: MIGHTY POTTER (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: GOOD TIME JONNY – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (5)/TONY MARTIN) 2.50: JANIDIL – EW – (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.30: BLAZING KHAL (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.10: HAUT EN COULEURS – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: FOXY GIRL – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.30: DUNBOYNE… Read More Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 3
Less than 24 hours before the commencement of this year’s Cheltenham Festival, this corner had no problem admitting that, in some ways, not a sh** was given about the action at Prestbury Park. Mitigating such misgivings, though, was the hope that the sound of the Cheltenham roar at the start of the first race would… Read More The foreseen, the unexpected and the downright emotional
1.30: GOOD LAND (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (3)/BARRY CONNELL) 2.10: THE REAL WHACKER – EW – (SAM TWISTON-DAVIES/PADDY NEVILLE) 2.50: HMS SEAHORSE – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 3.30: ENERGUMENE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: GALVIN (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.50: EPSON DU HOUX – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.30: BETTER DAYS AHEAD – EW – (JAMIE… Read More Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 2
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 Kennedy has emerged as a serious doubt for this year’s Cheltenham Festival having sustained a significant leg injury following a fall from Top Bandit in a novice chase at Naas on Sunday. Gordon Elliott trains Top Bandit and he said the jockey faces being sidelined for the “Foreseeable future” owing to what is by… Read More Kennedy a major Festival doubt
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… Read More Trusting your own judgement and reserving it on others
11.45: DELTA WORK (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.20: SUNDIAL – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/PADRAIG ROCHE) 12.55: FARCUER DU LARGE – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/NOEL MEADE) 1.30: IDAS BOY (BRYAN COOPER/NOEL MEADE) 2.05: STATE MAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.40: SEABANK BISTRO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: MY IMMORTAL – EW – (MIKE O’SULLIVAN (5)/BARRY CONNELL) 3.50: LECKY WATSON… Read More Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 20th 2022
11.45: FIREFOX (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.15: NATHANIELSDREAM – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/TONY MARTIN) 12.45: FLAME BEARER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.20: HERCULE DU SEUIL (ADRIAN HESKIN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.55: FLOORING PORTER (DANNY MULLINS/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.30: FERNY HOLLOW (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: RODNEY BAY – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/JOE MURRAY) 3.40: FERMOYLE (PAT TAAFFE (7)/NOEL MEADE)
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… Read More Jack De Bromhead – R. I. P.