On the same day that Joseph O’Brien won the Melbourne Cup with Twilight Payment, there was also racing at Fairyhouse on Tuesday and Willie Mullins saddled Klassy Kay to win the Jetaway.ie At Artic Tack Stud Handicap Hurdle in the hands of reigning champion jockey Paul Townend. On her first start for handler Mullins,...
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Horse Racing Aerclub wins again at Dundalk
Horse Racing Aerclub wins again at Dundalk
Neil O’Donnell Henry de Bromhead, fresh from his two-timer at the Cheltenham festival, struck with Aerclub in the Love Your Mum Median Auction Race for three-year-olds on the all-weather track at Dundalk on Friday afternoon. Aerclub was always well positioned under Wayne Lordan and the market-leader made his way to...
QUEALLY’S JUBILEE JOY
QUEALLY’S JUBILEE JOY
Royal Ascot naturally enough occupied centre stage on the racing front last week and Waterford jockey Tom Queally ended the Royal meeting with a brilliant win in Saturday’s feature race, the Group 1 Diamond Jubilee Stakes aboard the James Fanshawe trained The Tin Man. Queally was always travelling well on The Tin Man...
Wexford win for Queally’s Cloudy Morning
Wexford win for Queally’s Cloudy Morning
The final race meeting of the year at Wexford took place at the popular Bettyville venue on Tuesday of last week and Cappagh-based handler Declan Queally sent out Cloudy Morning to record his third success of the season in the Loch Garman Handicap Hurdle. This performance becomes all the more meritorious when one...
Henry’s Super Sunday
Henry’s Super Sunday
Photo: Nichols Canyon and Ruby Walsh winning “The Stanjames Morgiana Hurdle” at a foggy Punchestown on Sunday. Photographer: Alain Barr What a ‘Super Sunday’ for Henry de Bromhead this past weekend! On Sunday, there were meetings at Punchestown and Cork and the local Knockeen handler was responsible for...
Halley’s Arctic Skipper springs ‘Fortria’ surprise
Halley’s Arctic Skipper springs ‘Fortria’ surprise
Waterford-trained horses continued their rich vein of success this past week and on Sunday, Bonmahon-based handler Vincent Halley experienced his most prestigious career success to date by saddling Arctic Skipper to spring a mild surprise with Sean Flanagan in the Grade 2 thetote.com Fortria Chase over two miles at...
Wild celebrations as Miss Evecatcher wins at Tipperary
Wild celebrations as Miss Evecatcher wins at Tipperary
The ‘junction’ hardly ever saw anything like it! Last Thursday, there were massive celebrations at Tipperary following the hugely-popular success of Aghlish-based handler Roger McGrath’s Miss Eyecatcher in the closing Tipperary Mares’ (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race over two miles. The five-year-old Miss Eyecatcher, who won...
Sir Des Champs delights after 700 day absence
Sir Des Champs delights after 700 day absence
It’s always endearing to see the return of a top-class steeplechaser from injury and the 2013 Cheltenham Gold Cup runner-up Sir Des Champs overcame a lengthy absence to win the Boomerang Animal Bedding And Boomerang Horse & Country Store at Thurles on Thursday of last week. The Willie Mullins-trained Sir Des...
Road To Riches claims Clonmel Feature
Road To Riches claims Clonmel Feature
The main meeting of the year at Clonmel took place on Thursday of last week with the Grade 2 Clonmel Oil Chase occupying centre stage at the Powerstown Park venue. Some five runners went to post for the coveted two and a half mile contest which came complete with a first prize of €30, 875. It was Road To Riches that...
Sizing Scorpion strikes for De Bromhead
Sizing Scorpion strikes for De Bromhead
The national hunt season is really beginning to hit top gear at present and Henry de Bromhead continued his stellar campaign at Fairyhouse on Wednesday of last week by sending out Sizing Scorpion to win the Your Clubs Fundraiser Enquiry Today Handicap Hurdle. Sizing Scorpion, who came into this race with a rating of...
Identity Thief impresses in Down Royal feature
Identity Thief impresses in Down Royal feature
Henry de Bromhead is experiencing an absolutely stellar season and the local Knockeen-based handler appears to have another potentially top-class prospect on his hands in the form of Identity Thief who made a victorious return to action in the Grade 2 WKD Hurdle, the featured event on the first session of the two-day...
Thurles win for Tintown
Thurles win for Tintown
The first jumps meeting of the season at Thurles took place on Thursday of last week and Bonnemahon-based handler Vincent Halley kept his supporter happy by sending out Tintown Rambler to collect thewww.thurlesraces.ie Beginners Chase in the hands of Andrew Lynch. The towering Tintown Rambler, who showed promise in...