Tag: Danoli
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Gourmet dish off the menu as Hourigan hangs up the binoculars
“And Doran’s Pride’s a faller, Danoli hits the front, Danoli strikes the first blow for Ireland”. Peter O’Sullevan’s commentary from the back of the last home in the 1995 Sun Alliance (now RSA) Novices Hurdle. The day Danoli became ‘The People’s Champion. Even in terms of sport, it was a different world. Tom Foley’s stable…
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Selections for Punchestown – Oct. 11th 2023
1.50: DORANS LAW – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 2.25: BANNTOWN GIRL – EW – (ROB JAMES (7)/SONNY CAREY) 3.00: COMO PARK – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.35: HERCULE DU SEUIL (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: PANDA BOY (JJ SLEVIN/MARTIN BRASSIL) 4.45: MOVIE KING – EW – (BILLY COONAN (7)/TONY MARTIN) 5.20: BEAUFORTS STORM…
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Selections for Punchestown – Jan. 30th 2023
12.47: DIVERGE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.22: SUNDIAL (SIMON TORRENS/PADRAIG ROCHE) 1.57: PINK IN THE PARK (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.22: CASTLE FIELD BOY – EW W/O FAV – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/PAT FOLEY) 3.07: SA FUERER (ROB JAMES (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.42: THEFAITHFULINDIAN (SIMON TORRENS/AIDAN HOWARD) 4.17: ESTHER’S MARVEL – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/KEN BUDDS)
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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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Selections for Gowran Park – June 6th 2022
1.45: CULCOR (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 2.20: YERMANTHERE – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/PAT FOLEY) 2.55: HARBANAKER – EW – (ROBERT WHEARTY (4)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.30: PARIS PEACOCK (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 4.05: THE REBEL BREEN – W/O FAV – (CHRIS HAYES/NOEL MEADE) 4.40: ZOLA SAKURA – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 5.15: ROCK OF CANDY (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON)
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Sports Wordle No. 17
There was a song and dance made out of this Cheltenham legend… https://mywordle.strivemath.com/?word=zoerwm
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Selections for Gowran Park – Mar. 12th 2021
1.40: DIDN’TSLEEPAWINK (MARK WALSH/EUGENE O’SULLIVAN) 2.10: BARNEY STINSON (ROBBIE POWER/MOUSE MORRIS) 2.45: MIS CLOGHER (PHILIP ENRIGHT/SAM CURLING) 3.20: PICTURES OF HOME (JACK KENNEDY/TED WALSH) 3.55: REBEL GOLD – EW – (PADDY KENNEDY/PAT FOLEY) 4.30 FULL TIME SCORE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.05: BELLOW MOME (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.35: JOURNEY WITH ME (PATRICK MULLINS/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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The great Tom Foley passes away
‘Danoli, Danoli, you’re the pride of ‘Neill and Foley/You’re our hero sweet Danoli’. So sang the incomparable Richie Kavanagh of the horse which introduced Tom Foley to the rest of the racing world. And in so doing, got people attuned to horse racing that otherwise would have as much inclination of so doing as a…