Tag: Thurles Racecourse
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Selections for Thurles – Mar. 5th 2026
1.58: FANCY GIRL (DANNY MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.28: FLEUR IN THE PARK (CIAN QUIRKE/ANDY SLATTERY) 2.58: DRIVEONWILL – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/ROSS O’SULLIVAN) 3.30: WE BE GRAND – EW – (CAL HOGAN (2*) /ERIC MCNAMARA) 4.05: WESTERN WALK (JACK KENNEDY/JONATHAN SWEENEY) 4.38: OAKS SOLDIER – EW – (CARL MILLAR (5)/EAMON COURTNEY) 5.13: LOOKING FOR EIGHT (PADDY…
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Selections for Thurles – Jan. 29th 2026
1.25: LIVE TO LAUGH – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/PETER FAHEY) 1.55: MAGIC SADDLER (EMMA COSTELLO (7)/PAT DOYLE) 2.25: DAWN COMING – EW – (EOIN STAPLES (5)/CHARLES BYRNES) 2.55: TANGARA BAY – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.25: WHERE ARE YOU NOW (MARK WALSH/ENDA BOLGER) 3.55: BLOW WIND BLOW – W/O FAV – (MARK WALSH/ENDA…
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Selections for Thurles – Oct. 16th 2025
2.12: GANGSTER GRANNY – EW – (DONAGH MEYLER/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 2.47: WING BACK – EW – (SEAN O’KEEFFE/SAM CURLING) 3.22: LAMBAY ISLAND (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 3.55: TSAVO PARK (PADDY HANLON (7)/JOHN HANLON) 4.27: RUN FOR OSCAR (PHILIP BYRNES/CHARLES BYRNES) 5.00: LADIES WELL – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE/ANDY SLATTERY)
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Thurles disaster may be averted after “Positive Meeting”
The potentially disastrous closure of Thurles Racecourse has been averted until the end of next March at least following what was described as a “Positive Meeting” between the property’s owners, the Molony family, and the HRI. Earlier this month, Irish racing – and the National Hunt sector thereof in particular – was sent into a…
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Thurles thunderbolt leaves Irish racing in a spin
Do you ever think of friend, departed for the bigger world and it just knocks you for six? I’m not talking in terms of immediate family or other relatives. Just somebody whom you perhaps didn’t realise the impact they had on your life until they’re not there anymore. On Friday morning last, the late Derrick…
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Selections for Thurles – Mar. 15th 2025
1.55: THEATRE NATIVE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.30: HIGH CLASS HERO (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.05: CROWSATETHEAPPLETART – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICK WINTERS) 3.40: FOLLOWING ORDERS (TIERNAN POWER-ROCHE (2*)/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 4.15: HEWICK (PADDY HANLON (7)/JOHN HANLON) 4.50: SYRACUSE DE HOUX – EW – (PHILIP ENRIGHT/OLIVER MCKIERNAN) 5.25: OLD BRIDGE (HARRY SWAN/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Selections for Thurles – Nov. 21st 2024
12.35: JIGORO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.05: RICKY LANGFORD – EW – (SIMON TORRENS/PHILIP ROTHWELL) 1.35: MINELLA SIXO (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 2.05: GROOVYKINDALOVE (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/HENRY DE BROMHEAD) 2.40: STOWAWAY LASS – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (5)/SAM CURLING) 3.14: SAN AER – EW – (CHARLIE MULLINS (7)/TOM MULLINS) 3.44: JACOBS LADDER (HARRY SWAN (3)/GORDON ELLIOTT)
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Sports Oddity
“This is Major Tom to Ground Control. I’m stepping through the doorAnd I’m floating in a most peculiar wayAnd the stars look very different today” David Bowie – Space Oddity You suspect there are quite a few sporting entities experiencing similar conundrums to Major Tom in recent days. Not least some of those in or…
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Selections for Thurles – Mar. 5th 2024
2.40: FOLLY MASTER (KEITH DONOGHUE/TOM DREAPER) 3.10: BOSS ROBIN – EW – (RAY BARRON (5)/JOHN F. GLEESON) 3.40: CHOSEN WITNESS (SEAN O’KEEFFE/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.10: MULLINS CROSS – EW – (JODY MCGARVEY/JOHN HANLON) 4.40: TELL US THIS – EW – (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 5.10: LINDEN ARDEN (BRIAN HAYES/WILLIE MULLINS) 5.40: RED HUGH (PATRICK MULLINS/EMMETT MULLINS)
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Selections for Thurles – Feb. 22nd 2024
1.53: KING OF PRS (KEITH DONOGHUE/GAVIN CROMWELL) 2.23: MARSH WREN (CIARAN GETHINGS/STUART EDMUNDS, IN GB) 2.53: SOLDIER OF HONOUR – EW – (B. LAWLESS (7)/EOIN MCCARTHY) 3.23: STAFFORDSHIRE KNOT (JACK KENNEDY/GORDON ELLIOTT) 3.53: RUSHMOUNT (MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN/JONATHAN SWEENEY) 4.23: MULLINS CROSS – EW – (CARAGH MONAGHAN (7)/JOHN HANLON) 4.53: LADY GOONER (PATRICK MULLINS/WILLIE MULLINS)