Tag: Tu Va Stables
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Selections for Leopardstown – Feb. 1st 2025
1.15: WINGMAN – EW – (DANNY GILLIGAN/GORDON ELLIOTT) 1.50: SAINTE LUCIE (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 2.25: CUSTOM TAYLOR – EW – (CIAN QUIRKE (5)/DECLAN QUEALLY) 2.55: MAJBOROUGH (MARK WALSH/WILLIE MULLINS) 3.30: GALLOPIN DES CHAMPS (PAUL TOWNEND/WILLIE MULLINS) 4.05: INDIANA JONES – EW – (DARRAGH O’KEEFFE/MICHAEL MORRIS) 4.35: COLCANNON (DEREK O’CONNOR/NOEL MEADE)
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They did it their way!
“Don’t ever f*****g tell me how to ride a horse again”. There’s not many lines of work in which one could so vehementally rail against instructions dispensed by an employer and hope to survive such a skirmish. You couldn’t exactly imagine WP Mullins or PF Nicholls or AP O’Brien reacting as serenely as the berated…
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Selections for Bellewstown – Apr. 6th 2023
1.20: LOVE MOCHA (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 1.55: KNOCKMORE PRINCE – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: ASISAID – EW – (GAVIN RYAN/PAT MURPHY) 3.05: ESCAPING THEJUNGLE (WAYNE LORDAN/EAMON DELANY) 3.40: THAT’S MAD – EW – (SHANE CROSSE/LEANNE BREEN) 4.15: TOO BRIGHT – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 4.50: THE GOSSIPER – EW – (RONAN WHELAN/EMMET…
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Selections for Bellewstown – Apr. 1st 2023
1.20: LOVE MOCHA (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 1.55: KNOCKMORE PRINCE (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 2.30: THE BOG BANK – EW – (JAMES RYAN (7)/TOM MCCOURT) 3.05: ESCAPING THEJUNGLE – EW – (WAYNE LORDAN/EAMON DELANY) 3.40: THAT’S MAD – EW – (SHANE CROSSE/LEANNE BREEN) 4.15: TOO BRIGHT – EW – (COLIN KEANE/NOEL MEADE) 4.50: THE GOSSIPER – EW…
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Selections for Dundalk – Mar. 31st 2023
5.30: DUNDRUM (SHANE FOLEY/JESSICA HARRINGTON) 6.00: HYPERNOVA (WAYNE HASSETT (7)/JOSEPH O’BRIEN) 6.30: FOREIGN POLICY – EW – (LEIGH ROCHE/NOEL MEADE) 7.00: RICK DALTON (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 7.30: MISS ABBY JOOLS – EW – (ADAM CAFFREY (7)/CHARLES BYRNES) 8.00: GLAZUNOV – EW – (COLIN KEANE/GER LYONS) 8.30: MISS UPBEAT – EW – (DONOGH O’CONNOR/JOHN MCCONNELL)
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Poignant double for Donoghue as gentleman Andy remembered
Local jockey Keith Donoghue recorded a poignant double on Saturday afternoon’s Navan card. The rider sported a black armband in memory of his grand uncle Andy Lynch who was laid to rest this afternoon. Dunsany’s Andy was himself a highly distinguished and universally popular member of the local horse fraternity. Through his role as whipper-in…
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Schoolboy marks the half century in style
Having done the one job for a half century, you would either be an expert at whatever discipline it happened to be or completely fed up with it. There’s no way Noel Meade could be dissatisfied with the 50th anniversary of producing equine excellence from his Tu Va base in Castletown, Co Meath. Having belatedly…
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Niall hangs up the Boots and goes for the Slippers after decorated career
One of the formative chapters in the construction of a large portion of my life revolving around horse racing came to an end today when Niall ‘Slippers’ Madden hung up his riding Boots and went for the Slippers after a wonderfully decorated career in the plate. From Irish racing’s ‘footwear family’ – Dad Niall ‘Boots’…