Tag: Ger Dowd
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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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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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Keeping it local – a key part of the Boylesports Irish Grand National story
They say home is where the heart is. Seldom if ever has an adage been more applicable than in the case of the Boylesports Irish Grand National, the 150th incarnation of which was launched in Dunboyne Castle Hotel this evening. Just think of some of the names associated with Ireland’s greatest race. The Moore family,…
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Selections for Limerick – Apr. 15th 2021
1.55: KNIGHT OF MALTA (DENIS HOGAN/DENIS HOGAN) 2.30: THE CATHAL DON (RACHAEL HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.05: FIRST TOUCH – EW – (DONIE MCINERNEY/LIAM BURKE) 3.40: SAMBA DANCER – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/EOIN DOYLE) 4.15: LOW LIE THE FIELDS (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: EMIR DE ROTTS – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN (5)/PAUL NOLAN) 5.20: MR…
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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…