Article Category: Sport of Kings

Free Lunch

February 11, 2016
THEY SAY there is no such thing as a free lunch, but Joe Keeling’s... Read more »

META OSBORNE’S DRUGS PRESCRIPTION

February 11, 2016
OVER A YEAR in the making, the long awaited report by the Irish Thoroughbred... Read more »

CUTTING OFF SIMON COVENEY

February 11, 2016
WHILE Simon Coveney is regarded by followers of the sport of kings as a... Read more »

THE MULLINS FACTOR

February 11, 2016
SPEAKING in the Dáil during the debate on the Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015,... Read more »

GROUP 1 JOB AT THE CURRAGH

January 28, 2016
NO LESS THAN 19 runners have declared in the race to win the lucrative... Read more »

JOHN MALONE’S EXPANSION

January 28, 2016
CASTLEMARTIN STUD – the 750-acre spread formerly owned by Tony O’Reilly, which was controversially... Read more »

HUGO PALMER’S MUSCLE PROBLEM

January 28, 2016
EARLIER THIS month at Bowler Hat HQ, Turf Club chief executive Denis Egan had... Read more »

RUBY WALSH WANTS THE MONEY

January 28, 2016
WITHIN the tight circle of Irish Horse Racing, the Walsh family are not known... Read more »

RTÉ’S RIVALS ENTER THE GATE

January 14, 2016
THE SEISMIC uprooting of Channel 4 Racing as the broadcaster of UK racing’s terrestrial... Read more »

LOOKING UP DOWN UNDER

January 14, 2016
IT’S NOT very often that Coolmore don’t publicise news of a major victory, but... Read more »

CILLIAN RYAN DISMOUNTS

January 14, 2016
SWORDLESTOWN STUD, which was purchased by the late Cathal Ryan in 1999 and bequeathed... Read more »

LUCINDA VS THE BOOKIES

January 14, 2016
RENUA LEADER Lucinda Creighton has been making waves in the racing industry lately with... Read more »

SADDLING UP FOR CURRAGH TOP JOB

December 17, 2015
ADVERTS have appeared for the position of chief executive of Curragh Racecourse Ltd, the... Read more »

FAUGHEEN FORCED TO SHARE AWARD

December 17, 2015
THE ANNUAL Horse Racing Ireland (HRI) awards were dished out at Leopardstown last week,... Read more »

STABLESTAFF UNDER SCRUTINY

December 17, 2015
THE Irish Stablestaff Association (ISA), which represents the interests of staff working in the... Read more »

TURF CLUB GRABS CONCESSIONS

December 17, 2015
SINN FÉIN spokesman on Agriculture Martin Ferris was successful in his amendment to remove... Read more »

FOXROCK’S RETURN RIDE

December 4, 2015
FOXROCK, the Barry Connell-owned handicapper at the centre of the high-profile Punchestown missing shoes... Read more »

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOUR-HOOD

December 4, 2015
THE IRISH Harness Racing Association (IHRA) and its chairman, Mark Flanagan, who recently won... Read more »

META OSBORNE’S NEW REGIME

December 4, 2015
AN UNUSUAL clause inserted into Simon Coveney’s disputed Horse Racing Ireland Act 2015, is... Read more »

DERMOT WELD’S NEW NEIGHBOURS

November 20, 2015
RACEHORSE trainer and Curragh resident Dermot Weld, whose Rosewell House yard borders the proposed... Read more »

JOSEPH O’BRIEN’S TWEETS

November 20, 2015
IN A BID to “clear things up a bit” amid the speculation surrounding his... Read more »

JOE KEELING’S MEDIA MOVE

November 20, 2015
THE ASSOCIATION Of Irish Racecourses (AIR) and Galway racecourse supremo John Moloney have lost... Read more »

GETTING TO THE POINT

November 20, 2015
THERE WAS very little cheer for the Bowler Hats in Simon Coveney’s new Horse... Read more »

BLUE DAY FOR BOWLER HATS

November 6, 2015
THE FINE PRINT of Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Bill 2015... Read more »

WINNER ALL RIGHT

November 6, 2015
ONE OF the big winners of Simon Coveney’s new Horse Racing Ireland Bill 2015... Read more »

WILLIE MULLINS’S SMART MOVE

November 6, 2015
CHAMPION trainer Willie Mullins is now operating out of a stable he runs near... Read more »

AIDAN O’BRIEN’S ‘DUCKS’

November 6, 2015
“THE DUCKS are not in a row.” Aidan O’Brien’s words before unwrapping the thick... Read more »