Tag: Fairyhouse Easter Festival
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Apr. 21st 2025
2.05: CHOSEN DIAMOND – EW – (PHILIP BYRNES/EDDIE CAWLEY) 2.40: ITS BILBO (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.15: MYWAYOFTHINKIN – EW – (MARK WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.50: FEET OF A DANCER (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 4.20: HEART WOOD (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.00: WILL DO – EW – (HARRY SEXTON (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.40: FOLLY MASTER – EW –…
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Doing it in such a way that people cannot but notice
In honour of International Womens Day, we here and BTS head office look at some of those who have made sporting strides on the local, national and international stage… NINA CARBERRY (WALSH) MEP: The only possible place this celebratory journey could begin. Enshrined her name in Irish sporting history when becoming the first lady rider…
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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 – Apr. 1st 2024
2.10: REDSTONE (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.40: BATMAN GIRAC – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: O’MOORE PARK (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.50: THEDEVILSCOACHMAN (MARK WALSH/NOEL MEADE) 4.20: SAINT SAM (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.00: INTENSE RAFFLES (JJ SLEVIN/TOM GIBNEY) 5.40: ST DENISS WELL (JACK KENNEDY/IAN DONOGHUE) 6.10: REDEMPTION DAY (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS)
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JP’s last minute shopping pays off
Movie aficionados would of course have known this instantly, but, this corner only learned this evening that I Am Maximus is a reference to Russell Crowe’s character in Gladiator. So it was probably only appropriate that the greatest gladiator there is in terms of racehorse ownership, JP McManus, not only bought the horse in the…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Apr. 9th 2023
1.25: IDEAL DU TARBET – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.00: L’ANAMOUR – EW – (DARYL JACOB/STUART CRAWFORD) 2.35: PRINCESS ZOE – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/TONY MULLINS) 3.10: DOCTOR BRAVO (KEITH DONOGHUE/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.45: NUCKY JOHNSON (DENIS O’REGAN/NOEL MEADE) 4.20: DINOBLUE (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.55: MIGHTY POTTER (KEITH DONOGHUE/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.30: TOP GUN SIMMY –…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Apr. 8th 2023
2.10: ZAIDI (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.45: FERNS LOCK (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE) 3.20: INSTIT – W/O FAV – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: HALSAFARI – EW – (SARAH CAVANAGH (7)/MICHAEL BOWE) 4.30: LANDRAKE – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN (7)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.05: HARONTZU D’AIRY – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.40: THEATRE NATIVE (DAVY ROCHE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD)
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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 Fairyhouse – Apr. 18th 2022
2.05: ONLY SKY – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 2.40: ICARE ALLEN (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: CAPILANO BRIDGE – EW – (CHARLIE O’DWYER (7)/CONOR O’DWYER) 3.50: SANTA ROSSA – EW – (ROBBIE POWER/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 4.20: JANIDIL (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.00: FULL TIME SCORE – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.40: JOSHUA WEBB – EW…
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Boylesports Irish Grand National Shortlist
FARCLAS (SHANE FITZGERALD (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) Former Triumph Hurdle winner who, comparatively speaking, is a lightly raced sort. Not seen since finishing second behind stablemate (in the same ownership) RUN WILD FRED in the Troytown Chase at Navan last November. Raised 3lbs on foot of that run, but a proven stayer, Spring ground suits too. SCREAMING…