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BANAHAN’S EVENTFUL EVENING

November 14, 2019

JOE BANAHAN, Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) starter, had an evening to forget at Dundalk recently after a few issues with the starting... Read more »

DAVY RUSSELL GIGGINSTOWN BLUES

November 14, 2019

There appears to have been a juggling of the ranks by the Gigginstown team of Mick and Eddie O’Leary, with Davy Russell losing... Read more »

SUPREME SHAMBLES

November 14, 2019

THE SUPREME Horse Racing Club debacle still shows no sign of being sorted out and more fuel was added to the fire with... Read more »

THE QUEUE FOR DUNDALK

October 31, 2019

HAVING TAKEN remedial steps to improve the racing surface ahead of the winter season, Dundalk Racecourse again finds itself in the crosshairs, albeit... Read more »

John Magnier has been thrust into the spotlight thanks to a legal dispute over the 750-acre Barne Estate in Tipperary, while Moya Doherty had a problem with her neighbour.

COOLMORE’S CONTRASTING FORTUNES

October 31, 2019

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S quest to win Australia’s richest race will have to wait another year after his crack sprinter, Ten Sovereigns, trailed in last... Read more »

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S FIREPOWER

October 31, 2019

THIS YEAR Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s Godolphin has been enjoying a significant resurgence. And alongside this operation are all the huge British-based racing... Read more »

COSTLY ‘COSTLY DIAMOND’

October 31, 2019

TRAINER Pat Kelly’s record in taking on the stewards took a dent when his appeal over a running and riding incident didn’t go... Read more »

BYRNES BASHES THE BOOKIES

October 16, 2019

THE BOOKIES at Roscommon were caught on the hop recently by Charles Byrnes as the fearless punter carried off another successful coup via... Read more »

DAVID DUNNE’S ANXIOUS WAIT

October 16, 2019

NORTH COUNTY Dublin trainer David Dunne could be facing a hefty fine and or a ban if the findings of an ongoing investigation... Read more »

KEANE VS O’BRIEN

October 16, 2019

UNLIKE THE flat trainers’ championship, which has been won more or less every year this century by Aidan O’Brien, the flat jockeys’ championship... Read more »

ROBBIE COLGAN’S REPRIMAND

October 16, 2019

ROBBIE COLGAN obviously felt hard done by over a five-day ban handed to him at Listowel last month. This followed his second-place finish... Read more »

BLACKMORE’S BIG APPLE EXPERIENCE

October 3, 2019

It’s not unusual for some of the world’s top flat jockeys, like Ryan Moore and Frankie Dettori, to be riding in different parts... Read more »

CONDON APPEAL FAILS

October 3, 2019

Curragh trainer Ken Condon has experienced the dizzying highs of racing with his stable star, Romanised, and the Classic-winning colt has certainly delivered... Read more »

SUPREME OR NOT SUPREME

October 3, 2019

The highly successful syndicate racing club Supreme Racing has been the victim of a vengeful doppelganger, who has set up an imitation Twitter... Read more »

GOUGH’S QUEST CONTINUES

October 3, 2019

The ongoing saga involving Jimmy Gough and the Association of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) is the gift that keeps on giving and it seems... Read more »

BHA BLOOD WORK

September 19, 2019

THE BRITISH Horseracing Authority (BHA) has clearly stepped up its campaign to antagonise Irish trainers. Following several pre-race grillings of Charles Byrnes and... Read more »

FRANK FAHY FALTERS

September 19, 2019

MEDIA-SHY builder and property developer Frank Fahy hasn’t been spoilt with immediate success after taking the decision to get involved in a serious... Read more »

SETBACK FOR UNCLE SAM

September 19, 2019

COOLMORE STUD’S latest poster-boy stallion, Justify, has found himself at the centre of an American doping scandal after it was reported in the... Read more »

PRESENTING PAT KELLY

September 19, 2019

THE ENIGMATIC Pat Kelly – best known as the trainer of the Philip Reynolds-owned dual Cheltenham Festival winner Presenting Percy – fell foul... Read more »

JP’S POOR PUNT

September 5, 2019

WHEN COOLMORE wonder sire Galileo began his 2014 covering season, his list of mares would have resembled a who’s who of the racing... Read more »

DENIS HOGAN’S TOUGH BREAK

September 5, 2019

THE UPWARDLY mobile Tipperary trainer Denis Hogan has become the first trainer for many years to have a horse disqualified due to anabolic... Read more »

AND THEY’RE OFF… ALREADY?

September 5, 2019

AFTER AN unexplained weighing scales incident in early August, which saw the winner of a race disqualified over a matter of ounces, Sligo... Read more »

ELLIOTT’S TICKING CLOCK

September 5, 2019

IT IS that time of year when the Gordon Elliott versus Willie Mullins narrative starts to get an airing. Time could be running... Read more »

BARRY CONNELL’S NEW ROLE

August 22, 2019

BARRY CONNELL has decided to take matters into his own hands and take out a training licence. The former stockbroker has tried his... Read more »

WILLIE MULLINS’S RESERVES

August 22, 2019

AT GALWAY last year, Willie Mullins caused a bit of a stir when withdrawing Ballycasey from the Galway Plate to allow stablemate and... Read more »

CARELESS BRIAN HAYES

August 22, 2019

THERE WAS a nasty incident in a steeplechase at Killarney last month when the eventual third-place finisher, Rock Road, partnered by Brian Hayes,... Read more »

THE SCALES OF INJUSTICE

August 22, 2019

YOUNG JOCKEY Liam Quinlan and Tipperary trainer John Ryan were the victims of a unfortunate and slightly bizarre episode at Sligo recently, when... Read more »

HERE COMES ANOTHER O’BRIEN

August 8, 2019

AS If Irish trainers hadn’t enough on their plates competing with the might of both Aidan and Joseph O’Brien on a weekly basis,... Read more »

APPEALING BEHAVIOUR

August 8, 2019

THERE WAS mixed news for jockey MJ O’Connor last month after a couple of run-ins with the stewards resulted in a lengthy riding... Read more »

CRISTINA PATINO’S WINNING STRATEGY

July 25, 2019

FANS OF Goldhawk may not have been too surprised by the debut victory of the Ger Lyons-trained Brunelle in a maiden at Leopardstown... Read more »

RICH GETTING RICHER

July 25, 2019

FLAMBOYANT OWNER Rich Ricci had an up-and-down year last year and there were times when people were predicting his days as a free-spending... Read more »

NEW CURRAGH RACE CARD

July 25, 2019

NEWS THAT the Curragh racecourse board will be seeking to install a new chief executive to oversee the operation of the (very) expensively... Read more »

VINDICATION FOR BEEBY

July 25, 2019

GOFFS CHIEF executive Henry Beeby has finally managed to dispense with online pest Jim Carney, but he had to head to the High... Read more »

O’LEARY’S FLAT AMBITIONS

July 11, 2019

WHILE MONEYBAGS Mick O’Leary begins winding down his extensive portfolio of national hunt horses, he is taking the opposite approach to his nascent... Read more »

SOVEREIGN’S COOLMORE SETBACK

July 11, 2019

THERE WAS some top notch racing over Derby weekend at the Curragh, but what to make of the Derby result? While observers might... Read more »

MORE HEAVY GOING FOR JOOSTE

July 11, 2019

FORMER COOLMORE bedfellow Markus Jooste is being pursued in the South African courts by his former employer, Steinhoff International, for almost £50m. Jooste... Read more »