Article Category: Sport of Kings

AMER ABDULAZIZ CHALLENGES JOHN MAGNIER

June 28, 2018
THE LUXEMBOURG registered thoroughbred investment fund Phoenix Thoroughbreds and its associated personnel have been generous in providing newsworthy snippets this year – and the... Read more »

LUKE COMER GETTING CLOSER

June 13, 2018
THE QUEST by Luke Comer to train a winner continues, though it seems he is getting closer to his Holy Grail and it wouldn’t... Read more »

MAGNIER’S MERCHANT BANKER

June 13, 2018
JOHN MAGNIER and his investors have never been shy to take a major punt on a horse and it will be interesting to see... Read more »

BIN SUROOR’S BAD BATCH

June 13, 2018
THIS YEAR’S Epsom Derby was a much needed triumph for Sheikh Mohammed al Maktoum’s global racing entity Godolphin. While morale within the camp will... Read more »

HARTERY IN AND HARMAN OUT

May 31, 2018
THE IRISH and British racing industries are closely linked and as the latter says goodbye to a chairman, we welome a new one this... Read more »

WILL WILLIE NEED A NEW VET?

May 31, 2018
THE FUTURE of Tim Brennan as a racehorse vet now lies in the hands of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA). This follows news that... Read more »

SHEIKH FAHAD FLEXES HIS MUSCLES

May 31, 2018
GER LYONS has never been shy about airing his opinions but a failure to bite his tongue may have cost him dearly after Qatar... Read more »

DID HRI JUMP TOO EARLY?

May 17, 2018
THE CONTROVERSIAL media rights deal that saw Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) hand over the keys to Irish racing to Satellite Information Services (SIS) took... Read more »

HERE COME THE GIRLS

May 17, 2018
THE PAST 10 years have been a golden era for female jockeys. Having proved their worth against the boys and earned the right to... Read more »

ALAN FLEMING’S LOADED NEW OWNERS

May 17, 2018
CURRAGH TRAINER Alan Fleming is generally more associated with his national hunt string, being more or less a private trainer for Barry Connell. The... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S TRIPLE CROWN TARGET

May 17, 2018
WHILE OUT of luck in Churchill Downs when a quagmire of a track played its part in Mendelssohn finishing dead last in the Kentucky... Read more »

WINNERS AND LOSERS AT PUNCHESTOWN

May 3, 2018
THE PUNCHESTOWN festival was always going to be exciting this year with the Willie Mullins/Gordon Elliott head-to-head dominating the build-up but Paul Townend did... Read more »

CON MARNANE’S BREEZE DOWN

May 3, 2018
FANS OF Goldhawk know of the trials and tribulations of the breeze up sales season and the perils of this sector were evident at... Read more »

INGE D’HAESE’S ROUGH RIDE

May 3, 2018
VETERINARY officer of the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) Inge D’Haese has ruffled feathers among the training ranks, in particular with a couple of... Read more »

PAUL HENSEY’S NEW GIG

May 3, 2018
FORMER CURRAGH Racecourse manager Paul Hensey has bounced back with a new gig after being squeezed out of his previous role when current chief... Read more »

MARK FLOOD’S FITZWILLIAM FANS

April 19, 2018
FITZWILLIAM RACING was a name that cropped up a few times in the winner’s enclosure last year and the investment syndicate, set up by... Read more »

PHILIP FENTON’S RETURN?

April 19, 2018
COULD Philip Fenton be planning a return to the training ranks? The former champion amateur jockey and multiple Grade 1 winning trainer was handed... Read more »

BREEZE UPS AND DOWNS

April 19, 2018
BRYAN COOPER’S new venture as a seller of breeze up horses has gotten off to a stuttering start. Cooper – in partnership with his... Read more »

JOHN MAGNIER’S KENTUCKY CHANCES

April 19, 2018
DESPITE HIS glut of accolades and achievements on the turf, Saturday, May 5 in Churchill Downs could see Aidan O’Brien and John Magnier raise... Read more »

KEN CONDON SEEKS WINX CHINKS

April 5, 2018
WITH ALL that ‘will she or won’t she’ speculation surrounding Australian superstar Winx’s potential Royal Ascot challenge now over and done, it’s good to... Read more »

PAUL NOLAN’S COMEBACK

April 5, 2018
TWO FORMER leading lights of the Irish jumps scene – Bryan Cooper and Paul Nolan – have joined forces and are beginning to help... Read more »

Handicapping tyro trainers

April 5, 2018
AT A time when the number of active Irish trainers is reducing, it is ironic that the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) has cancelled... Read more »

DÉJA VU FOR MULLINS AND ELLIOTT

April 5, 2018
THIS TIME last year Gordon Elliott and Willie Mullins were locked in a duel for the champion Irish jumps trainer’s title and this time... Read more »

KERRI RADCLIFFE’S SUDDEN EXIT

March 22, 2018
READERS WILL recall (see The Phoenix 9/3/18) that Goldhawk was impressed by the size of the wedge chucked about by bloodstock agent Kerri Radcliffe... Read more »

CHELTENHAM’S MELON FLAVOUR

March 22, 2018
WHILE TRAINER Gordon Elliott will always be the golden boy as far as Mick O’Leary is concerned, Davy Russell and Henry De Bromhead surely... Read more »

PETER BRANT JOINS THE COOLMORE BOYS

March 22, 2018
THE FALL from grace of South African tycoon Marcus Jooste left a gap in the market for an investor to join the Coolmore triumvirate... Read more »

GER LYONS LETS LOOSE

March 22, 2018
DUNDALK RACECOURSE hosted the most valuable race held at the track recently but the €75,000 Patton Stakes – part of a new European road... Read more »

PASSPORT PROBLEMS

March 8, 2018
THE IRISH Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) released its 2017 integrity statistics recently, some of which made for interesting if concerning reading. Goldhawk has previously... Read more »

DORAN SWITCHES STABLES

March 8, 2018
IT’S NOT often that Gordon Elliott has horses removed from his yard to be sent to another trainer but London-based builder Tom Doran obviously... Read more »

PHOENIX RISING SLOWLY

March 8, 2018
PHOENIX THOROUGHBREDS has been a name on a lot of bloodstock players’ lips this past year and the emerging force in world bloodstock is... Read more »

CHELTENHAM’S GREEN GLOSS

March 8, 2018
IRISH PUNTERS will flock to Cheltenham this year high on confidence following last year’s phenomenal results. Irish trainers were responsible for more winners than... Read more »

AFTER AT THE RACES

February 22, 2018
THE FALLOUT following the recent shock news that At The Races will cease to broadcast Irish racing on its channel is continuing to have... Read more »

BRYAN COOPER’S RARE RIDES

February 22, 2018
BRYAN COOPER’S latest retainer looks to have come to an end after a very brief association. In November last year, Cooper got drafted in... Read more »

DENIS EGAN’S LATE LATE SHOW

February 22, 2018
THE ACTING stewards at the Dublin Racing Festival came in for quite a bit of flak over their failure to investigate the poor performance... Read more »