Tag: Midlands National
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Selections for Kilbeggan – Jul. 12th 2024
4.25: SLIM MARVEL – EW – (PHILIP DONOVAN (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 5.00: CHURCHWARDEN – EW – (BEN HARVEY/JOHN MCCONNELL) 5.35: CHAMPELLA (TOM HARNEY (7)/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 6.10: ONEFORTHEDITCH (SIMON TORRENS/EAMONN GALLAGHER) 6.45: KILASHEE – EW – (SHANE FITZGERALD/JOHN RYAN) 7.20: CEANNDANA (KEITH DONOGHUE/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 7.55: AMIRITE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 8.30: STUZZIKINI (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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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…
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Too much of a good thing devalues it
There are people, and you can count yours truly firmly among them, who, from the moment the Martin Pipe Hurdle is concluded, begin the countdown to the following season’s incarnation of the Cheltenham Festival. That will probably and hopefully eternally be the case. Forget about the trainers and jockeys and even the owners for a…
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Selections FOR KILBEGGAN – jULY 9TH 2021
4.30: WHOSGOTYANOW – EW – (CATHAL LANDERS (5)/ANDY SLATTERY) 5.05: VOICE OF HOPE (CIAN QUIRKE (7)/ANDY SLATTERY) 5.35: PAT COYNE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/JOHN QUEALLY) 6.05: MILLIES MITE – EW – (RYAN TREACY/EOIN DOYLE) 6.35: UNION PARK (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 7.05: MINDSMADEUP – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/MATT SMITH) 7.35: ROARING BULL – EW – (BRYAN COOPER/DENISE FOSTER*)…
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Selections for Kilbeggan – May 14th 2021
4.10: FAMA ET GLORIA (JJ SLEVIN/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 4.40: TRIXIE MC (KEVIN BROUDER/TOM GIBNEY) 5.10: COASTAL SOON (JACK DOYLE/PAT DOYLE) 5.40: PALM BEACH (MARK WALSH/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.15: FLYING COLUMN – EW – W/O FAV – (ROBBIE POWER/MOUSE MORRIS) 6.50: THE GREAT WHITE – EW – (CONOR MAXWELL/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 7.25: BLAZER (SIMON TORRENS (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.55: SONNY…
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McLoughlin Freewheels to local success
Before this corner was properly attuned to the goings on in racing, one of the first times I was at a racecourse was to see the Jim Dreaper-trained Carvills Hill run at Naas. Our main reason for being there was that my sister Anna was good friends with Pauline O’Connor. Now, Pauline’s late, great father…