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An admission; When I see a headline announcing the death of an Irish racing person, particularly one of vintage years, I don't read the text. Instead I come on to the site knowing I'll find a more...

Hardy Eustace will battle no more.

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Agreed Eddie. He and Mary Ann O'Brien (wife) created a tangible and continuing positive diffrence to Irish society, albeit after their own traumatic experiences. I think the saddest words in the...

That's the last thing that the world needs now.

He's crossed the Melling Road for the last time. RIP.

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(Irish Times)
The death has taken place of six-time champion Irish flat jockey Liam Ward. He was 92.
Among Ward’s 10 classic winners in Ireland was the legendary Nijinsky who he rode to victory in...

The New Yorker put it succinctly and accurately. All that needs to be said.

"Elizabeth, who died today at ninety-six, led a life made up of privilege and sacrifice, and even those who resented the...

I've a photo taken of me standing beside Honeysuckle taken at the stable soon after Cheltenham in March. Jack took it. No words.

Eddie's obits are one of the joys of this forum.

John Oaksey's book about Mill Reef got me interested in racing. Plenty of Col Blimp type passages, but fascinating none the less.

I wonder if Hamdan's and Khalid Abdullah's deaths along with Sheikh Mo's reputational difficulties is flat racing/breeding sitting close to a precipital downgrade in investment. Worrying.

I remember watching that meeting on RTE Ed, Lady Cap made an impression. Was it her first time out?

Here is Paul Haigh's piece on the 2003 Breeders Cup meeting at Santa Anita. Paints a picture so colourful you almost feel you were there.

Oh..hang on a minute..... :whistle:
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Seeing a horse in those pink and green silks always subconsiously upped my rating/bet assesment by about 5Lbs. There was an integrity and hope about them somehow. Whatever about his million Group...

Sad news from Barbados - Emma (Ledbetter) McManus, wife of John, DIL of JP, died suddenly, leaving three children under nine Mammyless.

Love that look over the shoulder by Dwyer between the last two.

The legend that was Stan Cosgrove is no more. He will ascend straight to paradise for putting up with Tommo during the Shergar crisis.

I am guessing that Eddie, who knows everybody, will have some...

Probably an apocryphal tale but Cash had been mugged a short head on yet another MVOB good thing and was leaving the unsaddling enclosure at The Park when a Dublin voice rang out.

"Go way outta...

The ordering of the paragraphs in that blog are mind-boggingly insensitive.

Some recent scribblings on Mick O'Toole for De Paper in case you can't sleep.
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After timing at its worst.

I knew Noel reasonably well and a nicer, more genuine person would be hard to find. He hard a strong edge too with the integrity and self belief to stand over difficult decisions against difficult...

http://www.talkinghorses.co.uk/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1492&stc=1

"Granger was a an enigmatic fellow................"

Jaysus. Pressure.

Drew on Edgt story above, but second sourced of course.