Tag: Tattersalls Farm
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Grassroots have to be the fulcrum of any sport
Over time, living with a disability, the realisation dawns that there are certain things you simply will not be able to do. Often a very long period of time. Furthermore, at no point is the possibility or mere nation of acceptance guaranteed. Foremost among them, and the latter point applies here more than anywhere else,…
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So near, yet so far away
New Year’s Day, 2011. Beginning another round of the calender in Fairyhouse. Same as it ever was. Except in that case it was anything but that. For about 18 months beforehand, dad and his best friend, the late former undertaker Oliver Cunningham, were tipping around with a few horses in training with Tom Taaffe. Spruce…
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Selections for Fairyhouse – Jan. 3rd 2021
12.40: FLANKING MANOUVRE (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE) 1.10: HOOK UP (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 1.45: CRASSUS (LISA O’NEILL/NOEL MEADE) 2.15: RAJIN CAJUN (DILLON MAXWELL (7)/MATT SMITH) 2.50: SHATTERED LOVE (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.20: COKO BEACH (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.50: GINTO (JAMIE CODD/GORDON ELLIOTT)