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Mon, 13/03/2023 - 18:59
Retirement beckons for Honeysuckle no matter what the result of the 2023 Mares' Hurdle is but connections of Henry de Bromhead's superstar are confident that she can go out on a high at Cheltenham tomorrow.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 10:00
THE roar will rattle the tea cups across the Cotswolds signalling the start of the Cheltenham racing festival.
Mon, 13/03/2023 - 03:30
Most would try to downplay the pressure heading into the biggest week in jumps racing, but Gordon Elliott ramps it up instead.
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 20:59
There was an extraordinary story to the closing bumper at Limerick today as 66-year-old jockey/trainer Liam Burke ended a 35-year wait for a winner when storming to success aboard Teuchters Glory (9/2).
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 03:30
The future of Cheltenham, to paraphrase George Orwell, is an Irish riding boot stamping on an English face forever. An Irish invasion which has been the making of the Festival may eventually become the breaking of it.
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 03:30
It has been an excellent season to date for Daryl Jacob, one with a new twist that has brought him back to home fires more often than at any time since he departed Enniscorthy for England 20 years ago.
Sun, 12/03/2023 - 03:30
TUESDAY
Sat, 11/03/2023 - 03:30
“It was quite a big knock-out,” is how jockey Jody Townend describes the horrific fall in 2018 in which she broke her back and endured nine months away from what she loves to do best.
Sat, 11/03/2023 - 03:30
We’ve a few decent races in Ireland this weekend before the big guns are sent across the water to the Cheltenham Festival.
Sat, 11/03/2023 - 03:30
This column suffered a poor run of form lately, where decent-priced winners were hard to come by.
Wed, 08/03/2023 - 11:45
Freezing temperatures overnight forced Catterick officials to abandon Wednesday's card but there was better news for Fontwell, Lingfield, and eventually, Kempton.
Sat, 04/03/2023 - 03:30
Goedon Elliott will be gunning for glory at the Cheltenham Festival in the coming weeks, but the Meath trainer will spend this weekend in Dubai as he eyes a piece of the sizeable Meydan pie.
Sat, 04/03/2023 - 03:30
It seems bizarre in today’s modern world, but until the 1960s, women were not allowed to train racehorses, at least officially.
Sat, 04/03/2023 - 03:30
There’s more than one kind of fairytale at Cheltenham – and it doesn’t get any better than an Irish jockey making his debut at the grand age of half-a-century.
Fri, 03/03/2023 - 14:28
Injury has ruled Jack Kennedy out of this year's Cheltenham Festival after the Kerry jockey lost his race against time to be fit for the Cotswolds.
Tue, 28/02/2023 - 19:12
Flooring Porter is "on target" for a Paddy Power Stayers' Hurdle hat-trick bid, according to trainer Gavin Cromwell.
Mon, 27/02/2023 - 15:58
Gordon Elliott reckons that “we mightn’t have enough jockeys to ride in the English National" in the wake of the "scary" whip rules which came into effect in England earlier this month.
Mon, 27/02/2023 - 14:47
Jack Kennedy is still "50-50" to make next month's Cheltenham Festival with trainer Gordon Elliott still unsure of what riders he will have available to him at the Cotswolds.
Sun, 26/02/2023 - 03:30
The meeting (Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine) lasts over three hours. I’m the only person in the room who can’t ask a question and watch from the gallery with a growing sense of frustration.
Sat, 25/02/2023 - 03:30
It is very rare that a field resembling the class of the Tote Fantasy Bobbyjo Chase (3.55) goes to post on these shores, let alone in a Grade Three, but that’s the case at Fairyhouse today.