Tag: Paul Townend
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Selections for Downpatrick – Jul. 15th 2024
2.40: COOLE CHERRY (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.15: MORTIMER DUKE (FINNY MAGUIRE/BARRY CONNELL) 3.50: WEE JERRY – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/IAN DONOGHUE) 4.25: RIVER TARA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.00: DISCO DANCER (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 5.30: WARMER DAYS AHEAD (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 6.00: CUCKOO VALLEY (JODY TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS)
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Hewick and The Shark strike a blow for the ordinary folk
New Years Day in 2005, and the concluding bumper threw up a local derby of sorts. In that the market was headed by the Tucker Geraghty trained, Jill Geraghty ridden All’s Rosie and Kilbreena. Trained by Des McDonogh for Dunboyne butcher Pat Macken. It may well have been around the same time that the Tom…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Jan. 1st 2024
12.10: MOLLY’S MANGO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.40: AH REMY MARTIN – EW – (KIEREN BUCKLEY/TOM GIBNEY) 1.15: LOVELY REACTION (SIMON TORRENS/TOM MULLINS) 1.50: DUFFY’S GATEWAY (SIMON TORRENS/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 2.25: INSTIT – W/O FAV – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.00: NICK ROCKET (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.35: STAFFORDSHIRE KNOT (HARRY SWAN (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Selections for Punchestown – Nov. 25th 2023
11.40: CHAMPAGNE PLATINUM – EW – (MARK MCDONAGH (3)/ENDA BOLGER) 12.10: TULLYHILL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.45: BALKITO – EW – (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN) 1.20: SHECOULDBEANYTHING (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.55: UNCLE PHIL (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: GALLOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.00: GABBYS CROSS – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.35: HELICON – EW –…
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Selections for Limerick – Oct. 21st 2023
2.05: LIBERATED LIGHT – EW – (JOHN GLEESON (5)/ JOHN E. & T. KIELY) 2.40: DARK IMAGE – EW – (RICHIE DEEGAN/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.15: SPACE TOURIST (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.50: HIGH CLASS HERO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.21: ANDYOURBIRDCANSING – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (5)/JOHN RYAN) 4.56: KNOCKNAGAPPAGH – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/PETER FAHEY) 5.31: MA…
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Selections for Galway – Aug. 1st 2023
5.10: ENFRANCHISE – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/JOHN HANLON) 5.40: SHARJAH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.10: TAMOLA (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 6.40: CURRENT OPTION – EW – (CIAN MAC REDMOND (5)/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS) 7.15: LIVIO MILO (CHRIS HAYES/DERMOT WELD) 7.50: KODIAC PRINCE – EW – (RORY CLEARY/TOM CLEARY) 8.20: DABANA – EW – (JACK KEARNEY (7)/MARK FAHEY)
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Selections for Punchestown – Apr. 25th 2023
3.40: SHECOULDBEANYTHING (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.15: FACILE VEGA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.50: MERLIN GIANT – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/EMMET MULLINS) 5.25: BLUE LORD – W/O FAV – (DARYL JACOB/WILLIE MULLINS) 6.00: ARUNTOTHEQUEEN – EW – (AINE O’CONNOR (3)/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.35: SIR GERHARD (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 7.10: DE NORDENER (DEREK O’CONNOR/ENDA BOLGER) 7.45: JOYEUX VIVO –…
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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 Thurles – Mar. 18th 2023
1.55: PONT AVAL (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.30: INDIANA JONES (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MOUSE MORRIS) 3.05: HYMIE WEISS – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 3.40: QUIRKES GATE (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/BARRY CONNELL) 4.15: SOMMERVILLE BOY (RACHAEL BLSCKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: SHANTOU LUCKY – EW – (PATRICK O’BRIEN (7)/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.20: I WON’T BACK DOWN – EW – (DEREK O’CONNOR/SAM CURLING)
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Selections for Cheltenham 2023 – Day 4
1.30: LOSSIEMOUTH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.10: PIED PIPER – EW – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.50: FAVORI DU CHAMPDOU – EW – (JORDAN GAINFORD/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.30: GALLOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: CHRISS DREAM – EW – (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 4.50: IMPERVIOUS (BRIAN HAYES/COLM MURPHY) 5.30: NO ORDINARY JOE – EW – (LUCA…