Tag: Christmas Racing
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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)
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…