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David Egan announced as first jockey to Kia Amo Racing for two years.
A world class jockey with big race experience and family to guide him he should do Kia very well.
Wishing them all the best.

Denis O'Regan announced his retirement at Navan yesterday.
A lovely rider, he gets out in one piece after riding winners at every jumps track in Britain and Ireland.
Wishing him all the very best.

Colm O'Donoghue came out of his shell when leaving Ballydoyle for Jessie's.
Wishing James all the best that he gets an Alpha Centauri early on to bed him in.

Amo the Barry Connell of flat racing.
Jinny is on the money re King Of Steel methinks.

Rachel back on Lady Rita Ballinrobe tomorrow .
Apparently connections had it backed at tasty odds the last day so retrieval mission tomorrow.
Best wishes to all.

Not yet apparently.
HRi to investigate

Tom O'Brien retired after nearly twenty years with Philip Hobbs.
1077 winners ridden; not a bad innings.

The way they see it is that a person chooses to risk their neck whereas an animal does not.
People can wait hours/days in A&E for treatment but a vet is expected to treat an animal within minutes.

Just heard my cousin Bryan Carver is out with a broken collar bone.
Pity as he was building a nice head of steam and had a few Festival rides.
Wishing him all the best.

Liam Burke turns back the clock at Limerick.
Rode the Bumper winner aged 66, his first win as a rider since 1988.
Hope for us all armchair jockeys to come good eventually !

Nice win at Thurles today by Alex Burke -Ott, a local lad.
His grand father Jorg rode with the West German equestrian team before settling near Banteer, Co Cork.
His father was paralysed in a fall...

Hope the wind blows the right way for Dave Noonan now.
Best regards to Tom, being a third generation jockey was never going to be easy but he grew into the role/ his grandfather won a Welsh National...

My stopped clock moment for 2023; tune in again next year !

Jack Kennedy in the wars again today.
Any chance Davy might come back for Thyestes/DRF ?

Legend for sure.
Different gravy throughout his long career.

Frankie Dettori to retire end of next season; needs 18 Group 1 wins to get to 300.
Odds ?

[QUOTE=reet hard;783567]Then why did the champion trainer, who - by definition - nurtures his horses, and places them extremely well, call on him to ride the Derby winner, last year?[/QUOTE

Adam...

Police Des Jeux are examining the Soumillon case and may extend the ban.
Hot from Racing Post.

Kevin Manning retires after 40 years starvation.
He is an unbelievably polite man whose success never really changed him.
Maybe not the most stylish, never one to use the whip in the "Protestant "...

Only for foreigners

Rarity at The Curragh yesterday when 7 lb claimer Jamie Powell had a treble.
Son of the late Anthony, grandson of Paddy he has pedigree to match his promise.
Congrats to him.

Wesley Joyce brought out of an induced coma to speak to his parents today / yesterday after his fall at Galway last week.
Wishing him all the best.

Hollie Doyle won her first classic yesterday in Prix de Diane.
Another glass ceiling shattered.
More luck to her, Joanna Morgan got the ball rolling in my boyhood days.

Richard Forristal has written about it in Today's Racing Post.
10/1 available seemingly if interested.

Robbie (Puppy) Power has announced his retirement.
Highly successful career highlighted , no doubt by winning Galway Hurdle on Missunited !
Wishing him all the best.