Tag: Royal Bond Novice Hurdle

  • Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 1st 2024

    Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 1st 2024

    12.00: MUST BE OBEYED – EW – (ANNA MCGUINNESS (7)/TOM GIBNEY) 12.30: WILLIE DE HOUELLE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.05: DUNBOYNE – EW – (SAM EWING/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.35: ROMEO COOLIO (A. N. OTHER/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.05: HEART WOOD (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.40: LOSSIEMOUTH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: WASHINGTON – EW – (PAUL O’BRIEN/HARRY DERHAM,IN GB) 3.40:…

  • Foibles of small fields but food for thought

    Foibles of small fields but food for thought

    When playing into the wind, in sport or life in general, it’s always safest to keep it simple and stick to what you know best. If you’re driving out, hold what you have and don’t look back. If, on the other hand, you’re fighting a rearguard action, hold your ground, trust yourself and keep it…

  • Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 3rd 2023

    Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 3rd 2023

    11.55: BRIDES HILL (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 12.25: BATMAN GIRAC – EW – (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.55: MY DESIGN – EW – (RAY BARRON (5)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 1.25: AN TOBAR (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.00: FOUND A FIFTY (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.35: IMPAIRE ET PASSE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.10: CONYERS HILL – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN)…

  • Trusting your own judgement and reserving it on others

    Trusting your own judgement and reserving it on others

    One of the perhaps lesser known drawbacks of dealing with depression, or indeed any mental health difficulty is the ferocity and rapidity with which it can decimate a body’s confidence. Conversely, it can then take millennia to rebuild. Thus, having got myself physically and mentally strong enough to go to the Fairyhouse Winter Festival, there…

  • Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 3rd 2022

    Selections for Fairyhouse – Dec. 3rd 2022

    11.35: LARGY DEBUT – EW – (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.07: WHISKY LULLABY (JODY TOWNEND (3)/WILLIE MULLINS) 12.42: DANCING ON MY OWN – EW – (JJ SLEVIN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 1.17: JOYEAUX MACHIN – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/PAUL NOLAN) 1.52: AN MHI – W/O FAV – (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.27: THE FOUR SIXES (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT)…

  • Boylan Talks Podcast – Nov. 29th 2021

    Boylan Talks Podcast – Nov. 29th 2021

    An absolutely packed show this time around. Documenting the latest chapter in the remarkable story that is Dunboyne Ladies GAA, a look back at an outstanding weekend’s National Hunt racing in Fairyhouse and the latest chaos with Manchester United and Rugby fixtures.

  • Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 28th 2021

    Selections for Fairyhouse – Nov. 28th 2021

    12.00: HURRICANE GEORGIE (LUKE DEMPSEY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: FIL D’OR (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.05: THREE STRIPE LIFE (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.35: CAPE GENTLEMAN (BRIAN HAYES/EMMET MULLINS) 2.05: COKO BEACH (JACK FOLEY (5)/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.40: HONEYSUCKLE (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.10: LIGHT BRIGADE – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/CHARLES BYRNES) 3.40: ROYAL ROMEO (PAT TAAFFE (7)/NOEL MEADE)