Tag: Christmas Racing

  • Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 29th 2020

    12.05: MORATORIUM – EW – (EOIN O’CONNELL (2)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.40: STATTLER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.15: CONCERTISTA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.50: MONKFISH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: ASPIRE TOWER (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.00: VISIONARIAN (KEVIN SEXTON/PETER FAHEY) 3.35: HOLLOW GAMES (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)

  • Another day, more for Mullins but Henry hogs the big one

    By ten past twelve today, Willie Mullins had another two winners on the board – one in both Limerick and Leopardstown. Both courtesy of horses breaking their maidens who would’ve been expected to have done so before now. One of which was the instigation of a treble for owners Joe and Marie Donnelly. The black…

  • Selections for Limerick – Dec. 28th 2020

    11.55: CIEL DE NEIGE (JODY MCGARVEY/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.25: VANILLIER (JONATHAN MOORE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.00: NEW ROSS – EW – (OAKLEY BROWNE (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.35: ROCKONROCKALL – EW – (MIKEY HAMILL (3)/EDDIE O’GRADY) 2.10: KEEP THE PEACE (CONOR MCNAMARA (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.45: DREAM CONTI – EW – (EOIN WALSH (5)/NOEL MEADE) 3.20: THE PRIESTS LEAP (DONAGH MEYLER/ARTHUR…

  • Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 28th 2020

    12.05: BARNEY STINSON – EW – (DONIE MCINERNEY/MICHAEL MORRIS) 12.40: SNEAKY GETAWAY – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 1.15: RONALD PUMP (KEITH DONOGHUE/MATT SMITH) 1.50: ARCTIC LIGHT – EW – (MARK WALSH/TOM MULLINS) 2.25: A PLUS TARD – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.00: FLOUEUR – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.35: SAN SALVADOR…

  • They’re top weight for a reason!

    Before I was properly attuned to horse racing, one of the things that actually put me off it was the amount of prattling on the presenters and analysts on television – particularly the late John McCririck – did before a race. The thought process here would have been ‘Just list the runners and riders and…

  • Selections for Limerick – Dec. 27th 2020

    12.20: KALKAS – EW – (HUGH MORGAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.55: KAVANAGHS CORNER (EMMA TOOMEY (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.30: STAKER WALLACE (BARRY O’NEILL/ENDA BOLGER) 2.05: VANILLIER – EW – (JONATHAN MOORE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.35: ATLANTIC FAIRY (HUGH MORGAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.10: LOST OSCAR – EW – (KEVIN SEXTON/PETER FAHEY) 3.45: BLAZING KHAL – EW –…

  • Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2020

    12.05: COLTOR – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/DERMOT WELD) 12.35: JEREMY’S FLAME – EW – (DENIS O’REGAN/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.10: CHACUN POUR SOI (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.45: N’GOLO – EW – (DAVID MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.20: ECLAIR DE BEAFU – EW – (JACK WILDMAN (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.55: TEN TEN – EW – (SIMON TORRENS (5)/PHILIP DEMPSEY) 3.30: REALITY…

  • Doubles for Meade and Elliott as Mullins has four tops

    In a world less ordinary, any semblance of what once passed for normality has to be clung to and cherished. So to that end, racing going ahead in Leopardstown and Limerick going ahead was absolutely treasured. Once that was saved, though, things went very much along usual lines. In that, between both meetings Willie Mullins…

  • Selections for Limerick – Dec. 26th 2020

    12.15: PALM BEACH (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 12.47: TOWER BRIDGE (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 1.22: SHADOW RIDER (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.57: SASSY YET CLASSY – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: ASTERION FORLONGE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.07: BIG DEBATES – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/ROBERT TYNER) 3.42: SOCIALLY DISTANCED (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (7)/PAUL NOLAN)

  • Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 26th 2020

    12.00: MICRO MANAGE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.30: SNAKE OIL – EW – (MARK BOLGER/BARRY CONNELL) 1.05: HA DOR W/O FAV (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.40: BIG KING – EW – (MARK BOLGER/BARRY CONNELL) 2.15: BLACKBOW (DAVID MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.50: JAN MAAT – EW – (HUGH MORGAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.25: GATEAU DU MIEL – EW –…