Tag: Michael Hourigan
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Selections for Kilbeggan – Sept. 5th 2025
3.57: NELSON MUNTZ (PETER SMITHERS (7)/HARRY KELLY) 4.32: ZILLOW (ANNA MCGUINNESS (7)/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.07: DOLCE N MILANA (SEAN CLEARY-FARRELL (4*)/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.37: SLIM MARVEL – EW – (TREVOR RYAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 6.07: FULL OF LIFE (OAKLEY BROWN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.37: A WAVE OF THE SEA (CHARLIE O’DWYER (5)/SHANE BRODERICK) 7.07: WARTIME LEADER (PADDY MULLINS/WILLIE…
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Gourmet dish off the menu as Hourigan hangs up the binoculars
“And Doran’s Pride’s a faller, Danoli hits the front, Danoli strikes the first blow for Ireland”. Peter O’Sullevan’s commentary from the back of the last home in the 1995 Sun Alliance (now RSA) Novices Hurdle. The day Danoli became ‘The People’s Champion. Even in terms of sport, it was a different world. Tom Foley’s stable…
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Selections for Killarney – Aug. 22nd 2024
4.33: CEOL DRAIOCHTA (KIEREN BUCKLEY/EDWARD BUCKLEY) 5.06: FACILE MODE (DANNY MULLINS/TOM MULLINS) 5.36: FEMME MAGNIFIQUE (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.06: TOPGUN SIMMY (PADDY HANLON (7)/JOHN HANLON) 6.36: RISING DUST – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 7.06: CULLENWAINE – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.36: DUTCH SCHULTZ (CONOR STONE-WALSH (5)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 8.06: WALK ON THE BEACH –…
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Selections for Killarney – Jul. 19th 2024
1.55: INSPIRE HOPE (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.30: WOULDYA (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.05: WINNING SMUT (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 3.40: EXTRAPOLATION (DANNY MULLINS/JOHN O’BRIEN) 4.15: SOLITARY MAN (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/ENDA BOLGER) 4.50: RISING DUST – EW – (DANNY MULLINS/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 5.25: SAVANTE (JIMMY O’ROURKE (7)/COLM MURPHY)
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Selections for Punchestown – May 21st 2024
1.25: MYWAYOFTHINKING (MARK WALSH/GAVIN CROMWELL) 1.55: WEPUSHOURLUCKSOFAR – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH/NOEL GLYNN) 2.28: SCOTT LANG (BEN KENNEDY/PAUL FLYNN) 2.58: FENWAY PARK (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 3.28: DORANS LAW – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 3.58: ARTHOR – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/JIMMY MANGAN) 4.28: WARMER DAYS AHEAD – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 5.00: DINOLAND (ALEX…
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Quiet man Heskin calls time on fine career
Hunter Chases and cross country races – it seems there’s no grey areas with them. You’re either a fan thereof or your not. I am totally in the former category. Thanks to the majesty of Enda Bolger, the late, great J. T. McNamara, Nina Carberry, Jamie Codd, Derek O’Connor and, more recently, Keith Donoghue. And,…
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Selections for Punchestown – Oct. 11th 2023
1.50: DORANS LAW – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL HOURIGAN) 2.25: BANNTOWN GIRL – EW – (ROB JAMES (7)/SONNY CAREY) 3.00: COMO PARK – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.35: HERCULE DU SEUIL (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: PANDA BOY (JJ SLEVIN/MARTIN BRASSIL) 4.45: MOVIE KING – EW – (BILLY COONAN (7)/TONY MARTIN) 5.20: BEAUFORTS STORM…
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Selections for Wexford – Sept. 3rd 2022
2.10: MAGICAL ZOE (CONOR BRASSIL (2)*/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.45: RED STRIKER – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFE/ANDY MCNAMARA) 3.20: MARY MEEHAN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.55: ELUSIVE SEA (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.30: RAMBRANITJAC – W/O FAV – (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.05: FILON DOUDARIES (MARK WALSH/SHANE BRODERICK) 5.35: LESSOFDNEGATIVITY – EW – (PADDY O’HANLON (5)/ANDY MCNAMARA)
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Selections for Leopardstown – June 16th 2022
5.15: WITH LOVE (SEAMIE HEFFERNAN/KEVIN COLEMAN) 5.45: NOTFORALONGTIME – EW – (MARK ENRIGHT/LAURA HOURIGAN) 6.15: FOCUS REQUIRED – EW – (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE/LUKE COMER) 6.50: MUDAMER (SCOTT MCCULLAGH (5)/KEVIN PRENDERGAST) 7.20: GOLDEN TICKET – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/ANDY OLIVER) 7.50: COMO PARK (DECLAN MCDONOGH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 8.20: HI STRANGER – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (7)/JOHN KIELY)
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Selections for Sligo – Aug. 5th 2021
4.30: DON’T HAVE TIME (PAUL TOWNEND/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 5.00: MARS HARPER (JACK KENNEDY/DENISE FOSTER*) 5.35: GENERAL MORIVIERE (MARK WALSH/SHANE BRODERICK) 6.05: BLOODSTONE (MIKE O’CONNOR (7)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 6.35: THE BANGER DOYLE – W/O FAV – (JODY MCGARVEY/KEITH WATSON) 7.10: SHES SOME DOLL (CONOR MCNAMARA/GAVIN CROMWELL) 7.45: NOS NA GAOITHE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)