Article Category: Sport of Kings

SADDLING UP FOR CURRAGH TOP JOB

December 17, 2015

ADVERTS have appeared for the position of chief executive of Curragh Racecourse Ltd, the private company set up with the assistance of Minister... Read more »

FAUGHEEN FORCED TO SHARE AWARD

December 17, 2015

THE ANNUAL Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) awards were dished out at Leopardstown last week, with junior minister Tom Hayes in attendance at the... Read more »

STABLESTAFF UNDER SCRUTINY

December 17, 2015

THE Irish Stablestaff Association (ISA), which represents the interests of staff working in the thoroughbred racing industry, is currently reviewing its policy as... Read more »

TURF CLUB GRABS CONCESSIONS

December 17, 2015

SINN FÉIN spokesman on Agriculture Martin Ferris was successful in his amendment to remove a contentious clause in Simon Coveney’s Horse Racing Ireland... Read more »

FOXROCK’S RETURN RIDE

December 4, 2015

FOXROCK, the Barry Connell-owned handicapper at the centre of the high-profile Punchestown missing shoes enquiry last May, made his seasonal reappearance at Navan... Read more »

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOUR-HOOD

December 4, 2015

THE IRISH Harness Racing Association (IHRA) and its chairman, Mark Flanagan, who recently won the battle to stage a trial meeting of its... Read more »

META OSBORNE’S NEW REGIME

December 4, 2015

AN UNUSUAL clause inserted into Simon Coveney’s disputed Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, is the one that permits the Bowler Hats to form... Read more »

DERMOT WELD’S NEW NEIGHBOURS

November 20, 2015

RACEHORSE trainer and Curragh resident Dermot Weld, whose Rosewell House yard borders the proposed €55m redevelopment of the Pádraig McManus-managed Curragh racecourse, is... Read more »

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S TWEETS

November 20, 2015

IN A BID to “clear things up a bit” amid the speculation surrounding his future plans, ex-Champion Jockey, Joseph O’Brien, recently released a... Read more »

JOE KEELING’S MEDIA MOVE

November 20, 2015

THE ASSOCIATION Of Irish Racecourses (AIR) and Galway racecourse supremo John Moloney have lost the battle to retain control of the all-important media... Read more »

GETTING TO THE POINT

November 20, 2015

THERE WAS very little cheer for the Bowler Hats in Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, but one battle they did... Read more »

WILLIE MULLINS’S SMART MOVE

November 6, 2015

CHAMPION trainer Willie Mullins is now operating out of a stable he runs near Irish racing HQ at the Curragh. The remarkably successful... Read more »

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S ‘DUCKS’

November 6, 2015

“THE DUCKS are not in a row.” Aidan O’Brien’s words before unwrapping the thick layers of cotton wool from his star miler, Gleneagles,... Read more »

BLUE DAY FOR BOWLER HATS

November 6, 2015

THE FINE PRINT of Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Bill 2015 was unveiled to the public earlier this month and... Read more »

WINNER ALL RIGHT

November 6, 2015

ONE OF the big winners of Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015 is Joe Keeling’s Horse Racing Ireland (HRI), which sees... Read more »