Tag: Cheltenham Festival
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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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Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 20th 2022
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…
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Selections for Navan – Nov. 13th 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)
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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…
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Selections for Wexford – Sept. 3rd 2022
2.10: MAGICAL ZOE (CONOR BRASSIL (2)*/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.45: RED STRIKER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 3.20: MARY MEEHAN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: ELUSIVE SEA (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.30: RAMBRANITJAC – W/O FAV – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: FILON DOUDARIES (MARK WALSH/SHANE BRODERICK) 5.35: LESSOFDNEGATIVITY – EW – (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/ANDY MCNAMARA)
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A while in Joey’s company was good for the soul
Did you ever encounter somebody in your life who, over time, ended up feeling more like family than some of those who actually are? There are many ways in which such bonds are formed and manifest themselves and there should be no need to justify how they came about to anybody. Coming at the same…
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Too much of a good thing devalues it
There are people, and you can count yours truly firmly among them, who, from the moment the Martin Pipe Hurdle is concluded, begin the countdown to the following season’s incarnation of the Cheltenham Festival. That will probably and hopefully eternally be the case. Forget about the trainers and jockeys and even the owners for a…
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CHELTENHAM 2022 – THE FINAL FLING
JCB TRIUMPH HURDLE FIL DOR* First to stake his claim in this division, rattling off a hat-trick between October and Christmas. Trainer has a notable record in the race Ground versatile But has 3 lengths to make up on likely Fav. PIED PIPER* Finished half a length up on Vauban on first start for both …
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Cheltenham 2022 – Day 3
Thankfully Facile Vega certainly lived up to his billing and name, when turning what looked like a minefield of a Bumper into a hack canter. On ground which would even suit, so we can only dream of what’s to come. Thus allowing to top and tail the card with the day’s selections. TURNERS NOVICES CHASE …
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CHELTENHAM 2022 – Day 2
Firstly ladies and gentlemen, my profuse apologies, due to technology being a complete pain in the backside, I am unable to bring you a video preview but I hope the below will suffice. Hopefully, also, some of ye made a few bob today on BRAZIL, 10/1, BLUE LORD (3RD, 13/2 when advised) and the incomparable…