Tag: St Stephen's Day
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Danish Tasty evokes memories of battles past
MANCHESTER UNITED…1 NEWCASTLE UNITED…0 Several times over the years in this space, mention has been made of the fact that yours truly was in the very fortunate position of having Sky Sports in at home before it became commonplace for that to be the case. Prior to that, being carried up the stairs in Mulvany’s…
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Some questions answered with more new ones created
Before we even reach the starting tape here, one can but doff your cap to Nicky Henderson and his team at Seven Barrows. What an amazing job they have done. Not only in coaxing, cajoling, maybe even codding, Constitution Hill back to full health. Not only that, but doing so in such a manner that…
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Selections for Down Royal – Dec. 26th 2024
11.40: AIR OF ENTITLEMENT (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.13: DOWNMEXICOWAY (SEAN FLANAGAN/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 12.48: ST DENIS’S WELL – EW – (JACK SMITH (4*)/IAN DONOGHUE) 1.23: STEP OUT – EW – (LIAM QUINLAN (3)/STUART CRAWFORD) 1.58: FINNIANS ROW – EW – (PADDY O’BRIEN (7)/DERMOT MCLOUGHLIN) 2.33: ITS ON THE LINE (MAXINE O’SULLIVAN (5)/EMMET MULLINS) 3.08:…
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‘Also-rans’ cause carnage carving up the field
It’s actually very fitting that what you will read hereafter is being produced so close to St Stephen’s (Boxing) Day. For the day after Christmas itself was the occasion on which Gavin Sheehan cajoled a truly rousing rally out of Hewick which nabbed the King George in most unlikely fashion for ‘Shark’ Hanlon’s (temporarily Tara…
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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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Moral victories aren’t even written on paper
Leinster… 20 Munster… 19 You often hear it said that certain things “Aren’t worth the paper they’re written on”. Well, moral victories aren’t even written on paper. If they were, it may as well be used toilet paper. Even the most ardent Munster fan must surely be sick of patronising platitudes at this stage in…
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Selections for Leopardstown – Dec. 26th 2021
12.00: HIAOU – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 12.35: WHOWONTHETOSS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/ARTHUR MOORE) 1.10: FIL DOR (DAVY RUSSELL/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.45: BANBRIDGE – EW – (SHANE FITZGERALD (5)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 2.20: FERNY HOLLOW (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.55: DEFAN – EW – (DYLAN ROBINSON/ HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.30: COOL SURVIVOR – EW – (TOM HAMILTON/GORDON…