Tag: Dreaper Racing
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The page of history turns in bid to Folly Master(s)
A nondescript handicap, curtain raiser to a mundane midweek card with a €6,000 cut to the winner is unlikely to remain in the minds of many for long. Yet it provided a moment of history. The turning of a page. Beginning the next chapter in the most glorious anthology in the history of Irish sport.…
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Selections for Thurles – Mar. 5th 2024
2.40: FOLLY MASTER (KEITH DONOGHUE/TOM DREAPER) 3.10: BOSS ROBIN – EW – (RAY BARRON (5)/JOHN F. GLEESON) 3.40: CHOSEN WITNESS (SEAN O’KEEFFE/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: MULLINS CROSS – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOHN HANLON) 4.40: TELL US THIS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.10: LINDEN ARDEN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.40: RED HUGH (PATRICK MULLINS/EMMETT MULLINS)
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Selections for Navan – Mar. 2nd 2024
1.35: WELCOME BACK – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: INSTANT TENDANCE (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: EL CAPITAINE – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/TOM DREAPER) 3.15: SPECIAL CADEAUX (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.48: SPILLANE’S TOWER (MARK WALSH/JIMMY MANGAN) 4.23: ASH TREE MEADOW (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.58: INTERSKY SUNSET (SHANE FITZGERALD/DECLAN QUEALLY)
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Selections for Ballinrobe – Apr. 14th 2023
4.50: BANNTOWN GIRL (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (5)/SONNY CAREY) 5.20: FREE FLOWING (ROBBIE GEOGHEGAN (7)/NORMAN LEE) 5.50: CAFE CON LECHE (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 6.20: OPTIONAL MIX – EW – (MICHAEL O’CONNOR (5)/EOIN DOYLE) 6.50: DO WHATEVER – EW – (LUKE DEMPSEY/JIM DREAPER) 7.20: ANKUD (HARRY SWAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 7.50: RAINBOW TRAIL (HARRY SWAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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He’s only gone and done it again
It’s hard to know which is the most surprising, that the bookies let Lord Lariat go off at 40/1, or that yours truly forgot to put a few bob thereon having had the pleasure of spending an evening in the company of the steed’s wonderful trainer, Dermot McLoughlin. Sometimes though, it’s not about the punting.…
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Selections for Punchestown – Dec. 31st 2021
11.45: EVERGLOW – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 12.15: ENVOL PERJI (MARK WALSH/LIZ DOYLE) 12.45: VAUBAN (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.20: CILAOS EMERY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.55: THE BIG GALLOPER – EW – (DONIE MCINERNEY/CHDRLES BYRNES) 2.30: BROSNA ROCCO – EW – (PAUL CAWLEY/SONNY CAREY) 3.00: CLAIRMC – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/GAVIN CROMWELL)
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Another of the ‘Dreaper Lads’ heads for the gallops above
No matter what one’s interests are in life, if they become a big enough part of your life, it moves away from the realm of pass time to something more significant. Then, if you happen to be blessed like me, it can be how you earn your few bob as well. I wouldn’t call it…
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Paths crossed in poignant healing
One of the greatest things garnered from 11 years on the Executive Committee of St Peter’s, Dunboyne were the friendships formed with people from nearly every club in the county. And plenty outside of Meath as well. Now read on… Yes, there are a few clubs in particular with which special affinity will forever be…