Tag: Ted Walsh

  • Selections for Punchestown – May 28th 2022

    Selections for Punchestown – May 28th 2022

    1.20: KILDORERY – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/TED WALSH) 1.55: ECHOES OF FAMILY – EW – (NICHOLAS TERRASSIN (7)/E&P HARTY) 2.33: HEIA (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.08: SOVIET PIMPERNELL (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.43: FOLIO – EW – (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.18: RESERVE JUDGEMENT – EW – (BRIAN HAYES/JOHN MCCONNELL) 4.53: PIKE COUNTY – EW – (AIDAN…

  • Snow ploughs at the ready…

    Snow ploughs at the ready…

    There was a time, thankfully many moons ago now, that yours truly gave considerable consideration to seeing what the darker side of the tracks had to offer. No doubt a large cohort of people will be horrified by the mere thought. Now read on… Wheelchair or not, the desire to fit in with my peers…

  • Grand National Shortlist

    Grand National Shortlist

    Right people, time to step up to the oche and fire a few darts at the expedition that is the Aintree Grand National… SCHOOL BOY HOURS (SEAN FLANAGAN/NOEL MEADE, 18/1) Yes a sentimental pick on my part BUT he is quietly fancied on merit too. A proven stayer, Paddy Power winner at Christmas, was running…

  • Boylan Talks Podcast – A good week for wearing of the green

    Boylan Talks Podcast – A good week for wearing of the green

  • Small fish get swallowed up in a big pond

    The year and a bit spent as Racing Manager-ish for the late Ollie Cunningham and my father- even though the latter always denied any official involvement – was among the happiest time I’ve spent on this big old ball. Mostly because it was probably the nearest these wheels will ever get to racehorse ownership. Not…

  • Selections for Killarney – July 16th 2021

    1.40: PRESENTINGNEWYORK (PAUL TOWNEND/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.15: GRINN – EW – (SEAN FLANAGAN/DAVID O’BRIEN) 2.50: TECH TALK – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/JIM DREAPER) 3.25: MERRY POPPINS (RACHAEL BLACKMORE/JAMES MOTHERWAY) 4.00: BATCIO – EW – (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/TED WALSH) 4.35: SHAWSHANK (BRYAN COOPER/PAUL NOLAN) 5.10: SEMPO (DONAGH MEYLER/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 5.45: NEVER FEEL BLUE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)

  • Selections for Naas – July 3rd 2021

    Selections for Naas – July 3rd 2021

    1.20: GEOCENTRIC (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 1.55: MORE THAN A PRINCE – EW – (SAM EWING/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: DEIDRA (COLIN KEANE/DERMOT WELD) 3.05: I AM MAGIC – EW – (LEIGH ROCHE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 3.40: LONDON ROYAL – EW – (DECLAN MCDONOGH/TED WALSH) 4.15: IVY AVENUE – EW – (KEVIN MANNING/JIM BOLGER) 4.50: SEA SESSIONS (DYLAN B. MCMONAGLE…

  • selections for tramore – apr. 19th 2021

    selections for tramore – apr. 19th 2021

    4.05: ROMA DELIGHT (SHANE O’CALLAGHAN (7)/TED WALSH) 4.35: DON DIABLO (JACK KENNEDY/DENISE FOSTER*) 5.10: SANI PASS – EW – (HUGH MORGAN (5)/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 5.40: MR BERCOW (KEITH DONOGHUE/JIM DREAPER) 6.10: NO THANKS (KEITH DONOGHUE/MATT SMITH) 6.40: SCHOOL LANE (CONOR ORR (3)/LIAM LENNON) 7.10: WINGED LEADER (BARRY O’NEILL/DAVID CHRISTIE)

  • Smashing the glass ceiling with the passing of the baton

    Smashing the glass ceiling with the passing of the baton

    The first jumps meeting of the season at Fairyhouse, usually in early October, is generally when the racing radar in this seat really becomes hyper sensitive. That isn’t to say one wouldn’t be attuned to goings on prior to that date. Just that the fixture in question is generally the cue for things to ratchet…

  • Selections for Leopardstown – Feb. 7th 2021

    1.10: RESCUE PACKAGE – EW – (ROBBIE POWER/TONY MULLINS) 1.40: YOUMDOR (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.10: APPRECIATE IT (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.40: PURE GENIUS – EW – (SIMON TORRENS (5)/TED WALSH) 3.10: MONKFISH (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.40: KEMBOY – W/O FAV – (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: FARCLAS (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 4.40: BRANDY LOVE (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)