Tag: Heather De Bromhead

  • Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 3

    Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 3

    1.30: MIGHTY POTTER (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.10: GOOD TIME JONNY – EW – (LIAM MCKENNA (5)/TONY MARTIN) 2.50: JANIDIL – EW – (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.30: BLAZING KHAL (PHILIP BYRNES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 4.10: HAUT EN COULEURS – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: FOXY GIRL – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.30: DUNBOYNE…

  • The foreseen, the unexpected and the downright emotional

    The foreseen, the unexpected and the downright emotional

    Less than 24 hours before the commencement of this year’s Cheltenham Festival, this corner had no problem admitting that, in some ways, not a sh** was given about the action at Prestbury Park. Mitigating such misgivings, though, was the hope that the sound of the Cheltenham roar at the start of the first race would…

  • Selections for Tramore – Jan. 1st 2023

    Selections for Tramore – Jan. 1st 2023

    11.55: QUAIS DE PARIS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.30: MASTERMIND – EW – (JACK FOLEY/CHARLES O’BRIEN) 1.05: CARDAMON HILL – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.40: LAKE CHAD (NIALL MOORE (7)/PHILIP FENTON) 2.15: MINELLA INDO (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.50: GOLF MARRIN (KEVIN SEXTON/TONY MARTIN) 3.25: SHES SOME DOLL – EW – (SHANE FITZGERALD (3)/TOM GIBNEY)

  • Jack De Bromhead – R. I. P.

    Jack De Bromhead – R. I. P.

    For many of us, sport consumes and envelopes so much of our lives that it can be very easy, and dangerous, to lose sight of the fact that it is just that. Only Sport. The shot that looked over but was waved wide, the putt which circled the hole but lipped out or the punt…