Irish Race Trends 15th to 19th February 2012
Hello everyone and welcome to your weekly racing preview from Malcolm Boyle. Mal’s got an excellent track record at finding winners via stats and trends and he shares his thoughts with us every week. Today, we’ve got his take on the upcoming meetings from Fairyhouse, Clonmel, Dundalk, Gowran Park and finally, Sunday’s card at Navan. [...]
Even if you’ve been living under a rock since the turn of the year, you’ll know that it’s the Cheltenham Festival 2010 next week. The biggest four days racing, betting and drinking, either side of the Irish Sea (with the possible exception of the drinking at Punchestown!) sees championship races galore, from the bumper babies [...]
Continue reading …JONCOL COMES OF AGE! Joncol, Paul Nolan`s stable star, did what he has been threatening to do for a while and scooped a big prize when getting the better of Cooldine in a ding-dong battle to the line in Sunday`s Hennessy Gold Cup at Leopardstown.Adopting different tactics to his Lexus Chase run, Joncol (9/4F) was [...]
Continue reading …Cheltenham Festival – The Irish Scene… Festival trials are pretty much coming to an end now, and aside from the novices many of the Irish contenders have now had their final preparations. The 26 races staged between the 16th and 20th March aren’t traditionally races for favourites – a huge 77% of them have been [...]
Continue reading …Potential superstar Dunguib has his final prep for Cheltenham in Sundays Deloitte Novice Hurdle and anything less than a resounding victory will be disappointing. Sceptics point to the fact that he has basically been beating the same bunch of horses in his races this season and the presence of Alice Bradys Call and Some Present [...]
Continue reading …THE FAMINE IS OVER! After what seemed like an eternity, racing resumed in Ireland on Sunday last, after the cold snap, with Fairyhouse and Thurles hosting interesting cards. Thurles also raced on Monday. Odds on punters got their fingers well and truly burned with no less than SIX odds-on shots getting turned over during the [...]
Continue reading …With the start of January, all roads lead to Cheltenham, Aintree and Punchestown. The first of these is also the foremost, and the annual battle between the horses and horsemen from east and west of the Irish Sea is awaited like no other in our fine sport. The curtain raiser on Tuesday is the Supreme [...]
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