Tag: Dave Nevison
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Do not discount the others
There’s something very fitting about what you will read hereafter appearing around the same time as the completion of the third round of soccer’s FA Cup. Therein have been some of the greatest upsets ever seen in any sport. Such as Northampton’s expulsion of Manchester United or Arsenal being ousted by Wrexham a decade and…
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Selections for Dundalk – Jan. 14th 2024
2.30: ICE OPERA – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/SHEILA LAVERY) 3.00: NEDITA – EW – (DARRAGH O’SULLIVAN (7)/DAVID MARNANE) 3.30: LOST PRESIDENT (DONOGH O’CONNOR/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 4.00: DEVIL’S ANGEL – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/KEVIN COLEMAN) 4.30: TOMMY MCJOHN – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (3)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.00: BEAUTY BELLA – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/ADO MCGUINNESS)…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – 11/1/25
12.00: BACHANNALIAN (SEAN O’KEEFFE/DECLAN QUEALLY) 12.32: KIMI DE MAI (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.07: KING ALEXANDER (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.45: AMERICAN MIKE – EW – (CARL MILLAR (7)/GORDON ELLIOT) 2.18: MISTERGIF (JJ SLEVIN/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.51: BANJAXED – EW – (RICKY DOYLE/LORNA FOWLER) 3.26: ALFA CHARLIE – EW – (JOSH WILLIAMSON/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Selections for Dundalk – Jan. 10th 2025
4.00: BROSNA TOWN (JACK KEARNEY/DERMOT WELD) 4.30: TOMARIO (DARRAGH O’SULLIVAN (7)/DAVID MARNANE) 5.00: CLARITA – EW – (SAM COEN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.30: MVEVE (HUGH HORGAN (5)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.00: POWERFUL LADY – EW – (ROBBIE COLGAN/NATALIA LUPINI) 6.30: TURBO SPRINT – EW – (NICOLA BURNS (7)/JOHN MCCONNELL) 7.00: HIGHER KINGDOM – EW – (DONOGH O’CONNOR/JOHN MCCONNELL) 7.30:…
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Slevin very much in the Green
In any walk of life, a conclusion of one sort generally leads to the beginning of another. Whether that be a footballer retiring a going into management, or a jockey retiring and taking out a training licence or a journalist moving on from actively writing and into an editing or sub-editing role. Mind you, in…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Jan. 1st 2025
12.10: AURORA VEGA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.40: LOVELY HURLING – EW – (MARK WALSH/COLM MURPHY) 1.15: PORTNACOO – EW – (TOM HARNEY (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 1.50: CROSSING THE BAR – EW – (PETER SMITHERS (7)/CIAN COLLINS) 2.25: ALLEGORIE DE VASSEY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.00: MY TRUMP CARD – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.35: PASSENGER –…
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Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 31st 2024
12.35: SHANNON ROYALE (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.05: FOLLY MASTER (TOM DREAPER) 1.35: YOUNG CHURCHILL (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 2.05: SAINT SAM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.35: THE NAGGER REIDY (JJ SLEVIN/SONNY CAREY) 3.10: KLASSMAN (PADDY O’BRIEN/SHANE NOLAN) 3.45: DERRYVILLE – EW – (DAVID DOYLE (7)/SAM CURLING)
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Some questions answered with more new ones created
Before we even reach the starting tape here, one can but doff your cap to Nicky Henderson and his team at Seven Barrows. What an amazing job they have done. Not only in coaxing, cajoling, maybe even codding, Constitution Hill back to full health. Not only that, but doing so in such a manner that…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 27th 2024
12.05: WENDROCK – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: IT’S FOR ME (DARYL JACOB/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.10: MARINE NATIONALE – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/BARRY CONNELL) 1.45: ROMEO COOLIO (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.20: LIEBER NICC – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.00: PANDA BOY – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/MARTIN BRASSIL) 3.30: GOLD HELP ME – EW…
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Selections for Down Royal – Dec. 26th 2024
11.40: AIR OF ENTITLEMENT (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.13: DOWNMEXICOWAY (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.48: ST DENIS’S WELL – EW – (JACK SMITH (4*)/IAN DONOGHUE) 1.23: STEP OUT – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (3)/STUART CRAWFORD) 1.58: FINNIANS ROW – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 2.33: ITS ON THE LINE (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EMMET MULLINS) 3.08:…