Tag: Christmas Hurdle
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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They did it their way!
“Don’t ever f*****g tell me how to ride a horse again”. There’s not many lines of work in which one could so vehementally rail against instructions dispensed by an employer and hope to survive such a skirmish. You couldn’t exactly imagine WP Mullins or PF Nicholls or AP O’Brien reacting as serenely as the berated…