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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 owner... 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 refurbished... 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 Court... 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 flat-breeding... 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 assume... Read more »
DEREK McGRATH’S DERBY DILEMMA
July 11, 2019
THE CURRAGH racecourse came under intense scrutiny during the Irish Derby Festival. The timing of the weekend was less than ideal, given that Kildare... 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 has... Read more »
GIGGINSTOWN WHO?
June 27, 2019
THE FIRST barometer of how the national hunt sales market is to cope with life after Gigginstown House Stud was measured at Henry Beeby’s... Read more »
KEEPING TABS ON BYRNES
June 27, 2019
CHARLES BYRNES showed recently that he hadn’t lost the Midas touch when it comes to pulling off a gamble, with his Mr Smith doing... Read more »
RONAN WHELAN’S WHIP
June 27, 2019
THE LATEST high-profile jockey to fall foul of the new whip rules is Ronan Whelan after three consecutive breaches led to a referral to... Read more »
HANNON’S VACCINE PROBLEM
June 27, 2019
LEADING UK trainer Richard Hannon felt the full wrath of the stringent Irish passport and vaccination regulations recently. Hannon sent two runners over to... Read more »
LYNN HILLYER’S CONCERNS
June 12, 2019
DESPITE INCREASED penalties, random stable inspections, educational seminars and more frequent out-of-competition testing, Irish racing still has a major issue on its hands when... Read more »
ALEXANDER’S ASSETS
June 12, 2019
IT’S LITTLE wonder that Kenny Alexander, the chief executive of GVC Holdings, has been happy to splash the cash over the last 18 months... Read more »
MICHAEL O’FLYNN’S COOLMORE CONNECTION
June 12, 2019
AN INTERESTING ownership alliance has emerged involving a little-known horse named Piece of Paradise. The two-year-old filly was bred by property developer Michael O’Flynn’s... Read more »
OXX EXPERIMENT FAILS TO DELIVER
June 12, 2019
BIG THINGS were expected this season when John Oxx and Patrick Prendergast combined their racing strings, which gave a much-needed shot in the arm... Read more »
GOOD NEWS FOR HENRY BEEBY
May 29, 2019
NOEL HAYES must be one of the luckiest owners in the game and has struck gold again through his Sunday Racing Club with the... Read more »
CURRAGH GOLD CUP LOSING ITS GLITTER
May 29, 2019
WITH THREE Group 1 races on the card, the Irish Guineas Festival is of the highest class, but the newly refurbished Curragh is in... Read more »
LUKE COMER CASHES IN
May 29, 2019
MONEYBAGS Luke Comer enjoyed probably his finest moment as a trainer when Raa Atoll pulled off a well-executed plan in winning a Group 2... Read more »
HEFFERNAN’S NOT SO ROUGH RIDE
May 29, 2019
BALLYDOYLE stalwart Seamie Heffernan is having quite a lean season by his standards, having yet to get to double-figure winners, but there was definitely... Read more »
NAAS’S LUCK OF THE DRAW
May 16, 2019
WITH CURRENT Naas Racecourse manager Tom Ryan about to head off to the Middle East to take up an advisory role within Saudi Arabia’s... Read more »
BARRY CONNELL’S NEW NAGS
May 16, 2019
ONE JUMPS owner whose enthusiasm has been tested in the latest season is Barry Connell. After a disastrous performance that yielded only seven winners... Read more »
HAYES OUT FOR THE COUNT
May 16, 2019
The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) introduced more stringent whip rules recently and jockeys, especially those riding on the flat have been finding it... Read more »
O’LEARY’S QUIET LANDING
May 16, 2019
DESPITE BEING crowned leading jumps owners for the fifth year in a row, Mick O’Leary’s Gigginstown House Stud had a rather poor Punchestown Festival,... Read more »
JAMIE MORRIS VS MICK O’LEARY
May 2, 2019
THE TRAINER Mouse Morris has had one of the longest serving relationships with Gigginstown and Mick O’Leary, but that relationship looks like it’s being... Read more »
DUNDALK’S BIG TRACK SURFACE BILL
May 2, 2019
PERHAPS IT should not come as a surprise that the manager of Dundalk’s racing track is set to lash out circa €3m to provide... Read more »
NIALL CRONIN’S STRATEGY
May 2, 2019
THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has decided to up its communications strategy, announcing the Herald’s former racing corr, Niall Cronin, as its new... Read more »
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
May 2, 2019
THIS SEASON has seen Scottish bookmaking supremo Kenny Alexander emerge as a growing force among the Irish jumps ownership ranks. While Alexander, the chief... Read more »
SEAMUS ROSS’S RETURN
April 18, 2019
WITH A rejuvenated Sean Mulryan enjoying such high-profile success this year after his long hiatus, the developer’s re-engagement with the sport is being classed... Read more »
WHEN ALL IS LEAD AND DUNNE
April 18, 2019
BRITAIN-BASED Irish jockey Robbie Dunne has received a 15-day ban by the British Horseracing Authority over a 2017 incident in which Dunne guided the... Read more »
O’LEARY’S ANIMAL WELFARE FANS
April 18, 2019
MICHAEL O’LEARY’S surprising idea of offering Don Poli and Outlander for sale two days before the Aintree Grand National certainly bore fruit. The two... Read more »
DECLAN MCDONOGH’S DEMOTION
April 18, 2019
THIS TIME of year, as the flat season gets into full swing, a few jockeys sometimes get promoted – or vice versa – and... Read more »
BOLGER’S BLAST OFF
April 4, 2019
NAAS RACECOURSE welcomed the Irish flat season back recently and while there was the usual domination by the ‘establishment’, there were also examples of... Read more »
HEAVY GOING AT AIRO AGM
April 4, 2019
THE ASSOCIATION of Irish Racehorse Owners (AIRO) held their AGM last week, and the going was far from good. There could be changes afoot... Read more »
RICH RICCI’S PR COUP
April 4, 2019
RICH RICCI has pulled off something of a PR coup after personally teaming up with BetVictor to honour antepost bets that had been voided... Read more »
MICK O’LEARY’S CAST OFFS
April 4, 2019
MICK O’LEARY has never been one to miss a marketing opportunity in his professional life and it looks like his racing arm will exploit... Read more »