I've been a very absent member for the last 12 months. Been busy with work, horses etc. Thanks for the good wishes after the win.
Beara had every chance and the change in tactics has worked well...
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I've been a very absent member for the last 12 months. Been busy with work, horses etc. Thanks for the good wishes after the win.
Beara had every chance and the change in tactics has worked well...
Des Scahill was also influential in keeping him on the straight and narrow.
Murtagh went through a phase when he could find trouble in a 3 runner race but he matured to be one of the greatest...
That made me laugh
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. We need the Dept of Ag to be fighting for racing at the Cabinet table when the Minister for Finance dishes out the scraps.
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It will be interesting to see what action the Turf Club takes if the Courts find him guilty (innocent until proven guilty). Potential for a €5k fine at the Courts or imprisonment. If the former, then...
I'm not sure how UDS will handle the atmosphere in Cheltenham. He seems to be a buzzy type.
I had a small wager on Shinrock at Christmas as he was a stone well in on his old form and seemed to be coming back to form. He was gone after a mile. Pity. Had lots of class but his jumping of...
I can't believe Jacob has taken that position. His boss will understand if BB gets stuffed. Is Jacob worried about the public perception then? Come on, this is BB. I'd be dying to ride him. If he...
He's on record as saying that he ruined too many good horses in winners bumpers. So we may not have seen a lot of his decent horses.
I also think that over the years Paul Carberry made his horses...
I don't remember the exact names (it was a long time ago), but there is a charity race at the Punchestown fesitval and Bert Allen (original owners of Granville Again, Laura Beau etc) had two "Slaney"...
Dylan Ross appeared on this weeks Irish Racing Calendar. I very nearly bought him after his first run in the Land Rover but he was €40k and had to stay with Meade. Would have been a nice buy and a...
I wonder does that mean you can pull your horses out on a Sunday as you declare on a Friday but not on a Tuesday as you declare on a Monday. Will be interesting to see how it works.
Kieran is a lovely fella. He had a leg in Gemini Lucy and currently has Sarsfields Ride and Railway Zira. I'm already looking forward to moaning about his ill-judged ride :lol:
If the intention was to have a go at the journalists, then it was petty.
He's only 24. Willie is in his late 50s. I'd imagine they will stick together for another six or seven years and then the baton will be handed over.
I'm not sure the letter needed to be written. Every connection will read stuff about their horse or themselves that simply is not true. We had it ourselves (cue the McCoy book) but writing a letter...
Presenting Beara runs tomorrow. He's in good form and Colm hopes the better ground might help him. I'm not so sure he has the speed for 2m4f on good ground but will find out tomorrow. 25 in the race...
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O'Leary can but if you are one of his trainers or jockeys, the Turf Club has lots of ways to make your life very difficult, in a very legitimate way. It's happened before and it will happen again....
I wouldn't agree with that. Just look at the Aer Lingus saga and how he let his personal feelings get in the way of business.
It's a hobby for all of us. Are you suggesting that we adopt the view that there are certain owners that are of systemic importance to the industry and therefore should not be touched? Coolmore, the...
You can't have one rule for O'Leary and another for the rest of us. If O'Leary gets his way, then change the rule so we can all pull our horses out. I have no problem with that, as long as it's...
I don't care who the owner is as long as it's a level playing field. I thought the ground change rule required two full movements in the description. So if ground is yielding, you can't pull out if...
Defiant O'Leary hits back over non-runner issue
IRELAND'S champion owner Michael O'Leary has revealed he is willing to take the Turf Club to court if it does not uphold his appeal against the...
Yeah we have a nice bunch at the moment. Pity Raise The Beat got injured as he would have given us some good fun through the Summer.
Thanks guys. Wasn't very confident after the last day when I was making all sorts of excuses about 2 miles being too short and the pace being ridiculously slow. He's got one gear, which is not slow,...