Article Category: Sport of Kings

ELLIOTT’S FRONT NINE ADVANTAGE

December 15, 2022

THE IRISH national hunt season has provided entertainment over the last few weeks and viewers of RTÉ’s coverage of the sport every Sunday... Read more »

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RORY COLLINS’S CATALOGUE

December 15, 2022

MEATH BREEDER and owner Rory Collins has cashed in several of his racing jewels in recent weeks with mixed results. The Ennistown Stud... Read more »

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BONUS BLUES

December 15, 2022

FOR MANY, jockey Tom Queally will always be associated with steering the mighty Frankel to all of his successes on the racecourse 10... Read more »

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O’LEARY’S SPENDING SPREE

December 15, 2022

DESPITE THE general economic gloom, cost-of-living crisis, inflation concerns etc, etc, the market for high-end flat bloodstock is reaching boiling point and one... Read more »

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KEVIN O’RYAN’S SCHEDULE

December 1, 2022

RACING TV presenter Kevin O’Ryan is known to keep himself busy within the sport, juggling his broadcasting role with acting as a jockeys’... Read more »

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MCNALLY HANGING ON

December 1, 2022

THE CURIOUS case of trainer Ronan McNally rumbles on, despite reports in recent months that a decision was imminent as to whether he... Read more »

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KEVIN DOYLE’S NEW GOAL

December 1, 2022

WHEN FORMER Republic of Ireland striker Kevin Doyle paid €155,000 three years ago for a foal that was a half-brother to a then... Read more »

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ROBERT TYNER’S U-TURN

December 1, 2022

ANOTHER TRAINER who had a spot of bother with the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) earlier this year is Robert Tyner. During the... Read more »

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KEVIN MANNING’S FUTURE

November 17, 2022

AFTER A successful career in the saddle spanning four decades, Kevin Manning finally hung up his boots after winning on Vocal Studies at... Read more »

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MV MAGNIER’S SPENDING SPREE

November 17, 2022

AFTER SADDLING three winners at the Breeders’ Cup in Lexington Kentucky, Aidan O’Brien is within sight of becoming the most successful trainer in... Read more »

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PHILIP BYRNES’S SETBACK

November 17, 2022

CHARLES BYRNES has bounced back in some style this year after serving his six-month ban for negligence in 2021 over the high-profile case... Read more »

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GAMBLE THAT NEVER WAS

November 17, 2022

A LOT of gambles are overhyped and often even invented by bookies to get ordinary punters to jump on the bandwagon and lash... Read more »

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PAUL BYRNE’S NEW NAG

November 2, 2022

WHEN TRAINER Emmett Mullins teams up with owner pal Paul Byrne for a horse deal, punters tend to take notice. They pulled off... Read more »

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KEELING’S PLAN STUMBLES

November 2, 2022

WHEN MONEYBAGS Joe Keeling and his ‘Friends of the Curragh’ proposed to boost the prize money to €600,000 for the Irish Cesarewitch at... Read more »

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SHARK’S YANKEE DOLLARS

November 2, 2022

NOT ONLY did John Shark Hanlon plunder America’s most prestigious jumps contest when his bargain buy, Hewick, landed the $250,000 American Grand National... Read more »

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ANDREW HOGAN’S HEAVY GOING

November 2, 2022

THE PROPOSED all-weather track development at Tipperary racecourse has suffered a potential setback in the form of a spanner lobbed into the planning... Read more »

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JOHN EGAN’S APOLOGY

October 19, 2022

VETERAN IRISH jockey John Egan has enjoyed something of a renaissance in his riding career over the past few seasons in Britain, where... Read more »

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O’CALLAGHAN’S CRYPTO LOSS

October 19, 2022

TRAINING FOR Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing delivers access to some top-class horses but it also brings plenty of headaches when it comes to... Read more »

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PHOTO FINISH FOR TITLE

October 19, 2022

JOCKEY COLIN Keane started the flat season back in March as the heavy favourite to land his third champion title in a row... Read more »

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MAGNANIMOUS MAGNIER

October 19, 2022

GIVEN THE focus on high inflation figures and the impact on the cost of living, it is unclear to some observers whether the... Read more »

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O’LOUGHLIN’S ROUGH RIDE

October 6, 2022

THE NEW chief executive of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB), Darragh O’Loughlin, had his first experience of sitting in the Oireachtas hot... Read more »

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EADE IN THE SADDLE

October 6, 2022

HORSE RACING Ireland (HRI) chief executive Suzanne Eade also felt the heat of the public accounts committee chinwag last month, with questions about... Read more »

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MAHON’S SETBACKS

October 6, 2022

STEPHEN MAHON – the star witness in Paul Kimmage’s Sunday Indo series of allegations of widespread doping in horse-racing circles published earlier this... Read more »

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BIG BOYS’ BIG POT

October 6, 2022

THE CURRAGH’S revamped weekend of racing, which included the Goffs Million and the €600,000 Friends of The Curragh Irish Cesarewitch handicap, was hailed... Read more »

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JP’S ROUGH RIDE

September 22, 2022

JP MCMANUS may well be the self-appointed patron saint of Irish racing courtesy of the millions he spends every year on training fees... Read more »

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HUSBANDS’S HANDICAP

September 22, 2022

IRISH CHAMPIONS Weekend may have been a success from a racing point of view, with top-quality action over the two days at Leopardstown... Read more »

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EMPTY SADDLE AT AIR

September 22, 2022

ANOTHER SENIOR racing administrator has announced that he is to dismount. Paddy Walsh, chief executive of the Association of Irish Racecourses (AIR), has... Read more »

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O’LEARY SHAKING UP OWNERS’ CONTEST

September 22, 2022

AS HE does every year, Michael O’Leary offloaded a good few of his lesser-performing horses at a Goffs UK sale recently. The Ryanair... Read more »

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RYAN McELLIGOTT’S NEW JOB?

September 8, 2022

AFTER 10 years as head of the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association (IRTA), Michael Grassick is set to dismount. Although there has been no... Read more »

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COAKLEY COMES A CROPPER

September 8, 2022

YOUNG IRISH jockey Ross Coakley’s career has been on an upward curve since he relocated to England last year but the rider’s momentum... Read more »

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MURPHY’S LAW

September 8, 2022

IT HAS been reported that Cork trainer John Joseph Murphy was recently fined €4,000 by the referrals committee of Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board... Read more »

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RYAN OUT OF AMO

September 8, 2022

IT HAS been an eventful week for Kia Joorabchian’s Amo Racing. The increasingly familiar ownership group, run by the UK-based football investor, has... Read more »

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SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S IRISH EXIT

August 25, 2022

THE DECISION by Sheikh Mohammed Al Maktoum’s Godolphin racing operation to cease having horses trained in Ireland from the end of this year... Read more »

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O’GORMAN’S GOOD CALL

August 25, 2022

TRAINERS ARE often quick to criticise the handicapper when they feel their horses are unfairly penalised by the ratings. More often than not,... Read more »

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GOING GOOD FOR HUSBANDS

August 25, 2022

A MONTH ago, the Irish Champion Stakes was in poor enough shape, without a sponsor and potentially lacking a marquee horse, either domestic... Read more »

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MCNALLY’S FINE RESULT

August 25, 2022

WHEN TRAINER Ronan McNally and jockey Kevin Sexton got into trouble with the stewards at Limerick over the running and riding of Ithaka... Read more »

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