Punchestown Festival 2012 Tips
Punchestown Festival 2012 Tips SCROLL DOWN FOR TODAY’S TIPS Punchestown Tuesday, 24th April 2012 Day 1 of the Punchestown Festival features the Grade 1 Evening Herald Champion Novice Hurdle at 4.20; the Grade 1 Boylesports.com Champion Chase at 5.30; and the Grade 1 Growise Champion Novices Chase at 6.40. Here’s the horse-racing.ie take on it. [...]
We’re all looking forward to five days of excellent racing, so this week we’re bringing you a special report relating to the 2012 Punchestown Festival, starting with some general stats: Ruby Walsh has ridden the most winners at the meeting in seven of the last nine years. Willie Mullins has saddled fifty winners since 2005, [...]
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Irish Race Trends, 18th April to 21st April WEDNESDAY 18/04: Dundalk: General stats: I keep coming up with the same names week after week at Dundalk but Peter Fahey is something of a ‘new kid on the block’ having saddled three of his thirteen runners at the track to winning effect. 5.50: We still [...]
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Irish Race Trends, 10th April to 14th April TUESDAY: Fairyhouse: General stats: It is quite remarkable how Ruby Walsh has fitted in fifty one winners at the track during the last five years given his workload in England during the period. That said, Willie Mullins has weaved his magic at this venue down the years [...]
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Hi everyone, a Happy New Year to one and all! I hope you have a good one. Mal Boyle has just sent me his latest insights into the weekend’s racing with details of meetings at Dundalk, Thurles & Naas: the highlight of these being the Grade 2 Slaney Novice Hurdle at 1.40 on Sunday at [...]
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Hi everyone, I hope you all had a good Christmas and if you’re struggling to pick a winner thias week, perhaps we can help. Mal Boyle has just filed his latest weekly preview of all the upcoming races from Leopardstown, Limerick, Fairyhouse, Tramore and Punchestown. The highlight of the week must surely be the Lexus [...]
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Hi everyone, due to technical difficulties beyond our control we were unable to publish your regular Wednesday preview of the upcoming racing. Thankfully, we seem to have sorted the problems out and now I can belatedly point you in the direction of Mal Boyle’s thoughts on what lies ahead. There’s racing at Thurles, Dundalk (A/W), [...]
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Hi again, I’ve just received the latest racing preview from Mal Boyle with details of all the upcoming racing between now and Sunday. There’s the regular Friday evening All-Weather meeting from Dundalk, as well as jumps racing from Gowran Park and Fairyhouse, ending the week at Navan whose card includes the Grade 1 Navan Novice [...]
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Malcolm Boyle is back again with a preview of the forthcoming racing from Clonmel, Dundalk, Navan, Cork & Punchestown over the next few days, culminating in the Grade 1 John Durkan Memorial Chase on Sunday. THURSDAY: Clonmel: General stats: Clonleney potentially represents Adrian Murray on the card with the trainer having saddled three winners from [...]
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Not much of interest in terms of trends this week, but still a few pointers to hopefully help us find a winner or three… WEDNESDAY 16th November: Fairyhouse: General stats: El Toreros is Dermot Weld’s only runner on the card (12.55) and as three of Dermot’s last four runners have won, the stable might improve [...]
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Hello again, I’ve just had word from Malcolm Boyle that he has done his regular weekly preview of the upcoming fixtures. Mal’s opinions are very well respected, particularly from his work for the Sporting Life and also for www.geegeez.co.uk. This week he has turned his attention to some quality jumps racing, including the valuable Clonmel [...]
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Hello again, it’s that time of week where Malcolm Boyle casts his eye over the forthcoming racecards in a bid to find us all some winners! He’s gone through the declarations for the next few days and he’s gathered all the relevant information, stats and pointers for the meetings at Thurles, Down Royal, Dundalk and [...]
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It’s Wednesday again and that means the return of Malcolm Boyle of sportinglife.com, and geegeez.co.uk. Mal is back with his view on the forthcoming meetings between now and Sunday, including the jumps meetings at Punchestown, Clonmel, Leopardstown (Trigo Stakes) and Naas as well as Friday’s All-Weather card from Dundalk. Let’s see what Mal has gleaned [...]
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The Galway Festival 2011 starts today, and below are some course notes that should serve you well if kept close to hand. Galway is a unique track, and places demands on horses that no other racecourse in the world can rival. It is also, of course, a place of ribald revelry and marathon drinking and [...]
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The home straight is upon us and, after four days of fantastic sport, and winners at 16/1 Spirit of Adjisa, 8/1 Lovethehigherlaw, 7/1 Scotsirish, 5/1 Outlaw Pete, 7/2 Quito de la Roque, 10/3 Another Jewel, 5/2 Kid Cassidy and 1/2 Hurricane Fly, followers of this column will be up over 20 points up so far. [...]
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Turning in for the home straight, and after a frustrating day for me personally yesterday with too many seconds (Sona Mix, Cos Corrig, Mourad) and not enough winners (Another Jewel), I’m still in front on the week and staring at the line of eight races that greet us today. First up is a hunter chase, [...]
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Day three of the Punchestown Festival 2011 and, as we reach the half-way point in this punting marathon, there have already been thrills and spills galore. Rating high amongst them was the carnage of the opening cross country race, with wrong courses, loose horses and too tight bends; and yesterday’s dramatic last fence fall of [...]
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Day two of the great jumping festival and, with pockets fair bulging after Outlaw Pete and Quito de la Roque yesterday, I might have to resist my natural urge to pile back in today. To say it looks tricky is a bit like General Custer reporting the same when first viewing the onrushing indian hoardes! [...]
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The last of the Spring Festivals is upon us, and it’s that marathon jamoboree from ‘our side’ of the water, the Punchestown Festival. For the next five days, all roads lead to Kildare or, like many, maybe you just moved across the heath from watching the Curragh races at the weekend! In any case, the [...]
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Champion two year old, Frankel, trained by Henry Cecil, face a maximum of five rivals in Saturday’s Group 3 totesport.com Greenham Stakes at Newbury. A best priced 5/6 for the 2000 Guineas itself, and no better than 4/1 for the Derby, Frankel will have to win and win well to justify those anorexic odds. Facing [...]
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