Article Category: Sport of Kings

O’CALLAGHAN’S MIXED WEEK

June 30, 2022

CURRAGH TRAINER Michael O’Callaghan certainly endured the highs and lows of Royal Ascot week and despite the majority of his horses running below... Read more »

FAMILY FORTUNES

June 30, 2022

COULD THIS be the year when Aidan O’Brien loses his grip on the Irish trainers’ championship? For the past 15 years, O’Brien has... Read more »

JOHN HALLEY’S DOG

June 30, 2022

COOLMORE VET John Halley’s embarrassing doping case involving the family dog – understandably raised plenty of eyebrows. While cynics may find the excuse... Read more »

JOE KEELING’S CRITICS

June 16, 2022

NO MATTER the apparent PR value of any gesture especially one of real scale, there will always be a critic or two waiting... Read more »

BALLYDOYLE’S YOUNG GUNS

June 16, 2022

AIDAN O’BRIEN will be banking on some big performances from his squad of two-year-olds at Royal Ascot this week to boost morale in... Read more »

PADDY TWOMEY’S TOP FORM

June 16, 2022

TIPPERARY TRAINER Paddy Twomey’s business has been on a steep upward curve this past couple of years and the progress has been amplified... Read more »

COTTER’S SETBACK

June 2, 2022

KIERAN COTTER’S progress as an upwardly mobile trainer has been halted for a while after he was the recipient of one of the... Read more »

ADDING UP AT MYRACEHORSE

June 2, 2022

THE MICRO-SHARE ownership vehicle Myracehorse.com got off to a great start when its part-owned Authentic won the Kentucky Derby in 2020 and the... Read more »

GORDON ELLIOTT’S SURPRISE

June 2, 2022

THERE WAS an interesting Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referral from Punchestown in April involving trainer Gordon Elliott.  The agency noted the late withdrawal... Read more »

TED WALSH’S RTÉ RIDE

May 19, 2022

PUNTERS WILL be interested to see if Ted Walsh’s latest blunder on RTÉ’s racing coverage of Punchestown has any repercussions for his long-held... Read more »

KEVIN DOYLE’S PUNT

May 19, 2022

FORMER IRISH international footballer Kevin Doyle caused something of a stir two-and-a-half years ago, when he paid €155,000 for a colt foal at... Read more »

O’LOUGHLIN’S IHRB PRESCRIPTION

May 19, 2022

USUALLY WHEN an outsider is appointed to a high-profile position in horseracing, there is a mention or two about how he or she... Read more »

THIRTY-FIRST TIME LUCKY

May 5, 2022

WHEN THE Ado McGuinness-trained Lariat won a low-grade handicap at Bellewstown recently, it was the horse’s first victory in a two-year period during... Read more »

SHARK ATTACK

May 5, 2022

KILKENNY TRAINER John ‘Shark’ Hanlon has already achieved the remarkable feat by winning a Grade 1 race with a Willie Mullins-trained cast-off when... Read more »

MAGNIER VS MAKTOUM

May 5, 2022

LAST WEEKEND’S Guineas Festival at Newmarket signalled the return in force of the European flat season and judged on the brilliant one-two in... Read more »

GORDON ELLIOTT’S TV SNUB

April 20, 2022

WHEN GORDON ELLIOTT trained a Grade 1 double at Aintree recently, with JP McManus’s Three Strip Life and Sire Du Berlais, there were... Read more »

NO MONEY NO HONEY

April 20, 2022

WHEN THE Nicky Henderson-trained Constitution Hill stormed to victory in the opening race at Cheltenham last month, his owner Michael Buckley suggested he... Read more »

THE DRIVE FOR FIVE

April 20, 2022

THE TALK of Cheltenham possibly adding on a fifth day to the annual March shindig has been rumbling on for some time now... Read more »

TOLERATING TITAN JACK

April 20, 2022

THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board has put a lot of effort in recent times into discouraging non-triers and rooting out doping offenders. One... Read more »

UNFINISHED BUSINESS FOR WILLIE

April 7, 2022

NOT SINCE the 1950s when Vincent O’Brien was crowned champion jumps trainer in Britain has an Irish trainer achieved this feat but Willie... Read more »

HARRINGTON’S WRIST SLAP

April 7, 2022

WHEN THE Co Kildare premises used by the now high-profile equine therapist John Warwick were raided by Department of Agriculture officials in tandem... Read more »

ADO’S PUNT PAYING OFF

April 7, 2022

WHEN TRAINER Ado McGuinness convinced owner Gary Devlin to fork out a reputed €¼m for recent Dubai winner A Case Of You a... Read more »

DUNNE’S EARLY RETURN

April 7, 2022

ROBBIE DUNNE was vindicated in lodging an appeal against his 18-month suspension for his bullying of fellow jockey Bryony Frost. The reduction in... Read more »

DOUG TAYLOR’S PURCHASE

March 24, 2022

DOUGLAS TAYLOR, who has been making waves in the racing and bloodstock world for some time, has another big project in the pipeline.... Read more »