Murphy pleased with stable stars.
Colm Murphy is very happy with his stable stars Voler La Vedette and Big Zeb after Punchestown last week. Connections of Voler La Vedette have decided to keep the eight year old mare in training next season after she finished second to the talented Quevega in the Ladbrokes.com World Series Hurdle last Thursday at the [...]
Tony McCoy completed a double on the Fairyhouse Grand National Card when Alderwood made a bold front running performance to claim the Grade Two Rathbarry and Glenview Studs Novice Hurdle. The Cheltenham Vincent O’Brien County Hurdle winner was always in front in today’s race and despite the Willie Mullin strained Allure Of Illusion coming with [...]
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Eight runners have been declared for the Grade Two Keelings Irish Strawberry Hurdle tomorrow at Fairyhouse. Jessica Harrington’s Moone stable has been in tremendous form and Oscars Well will bid to record his first win of the season tomorrow at the county Meath track. Oscars Well was last seen finishing sixth behind Rock On Ruby [...]
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Rathlin looks to be a horse to watch in the future after he made it look easy when winning the Grade Two Nas Na Riogh Novice Chase without even coming off the bridle. Formerly trained by Philip Rothwell, Rathlin finished sixth in last year’s Supreme Novice Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival but the seven year [...]
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Meath handler Tom Gibney has not ruled out a run at the Cheltenham Festival for his recent 50/1 winner Lion Na Bearnai who caused a surprise when winning the Grade Two Ten Up Novice Chase at Navan recently. Lion Na Bearnai’s main aim is the Powers Whiskey Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse on Easter Monday [...]
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Good Morning to you all! It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time for your regular weekend’s racing preview from our man with the stats: Malcolm Boyle. This week, he has all the details from the meetings at Punchestown, Thurles, Dundalk (as always!), Fairyhouse & Sunday’s card at Naas. One of the highlights of the week is [...]
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Seabass will be hoping for softer conditions at Kempton on Saturday if he is to take his chance in the Racing Plus Chase. Ted Walsh’s Seabass has won his last six starts including valuable wins at Leopardstown and at Limerick and although a nine year old he seems to be at his top form. Currently [...]
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The former John Oxx trained Minsk is set to make his eagerly anticipated hurdling debut at Fairyhouse on Saturday. Minsk was an impressive winner of the Irish Cesarewitch at the Curragh last October and his owner Barry Connell decided to send him on a hurdling debut. Minsk is now trained by Dessie Hughes who is [...]
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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. [...]
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Rathlin opened his account for Mouse Morris in the Visit Fairyhouse.ie Beginners Chase. The seven-year-old looked set for big things when trained by Philip Rothwell last season and finished sixth in the Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham. Since joining Morris in the summer he has been a beaten favourite at Thurles twice but made every [...]
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Frisco Depot made a successful start to life over fences with a narrow victory in the Ratoath Community Beginners Chase at Fairyhouse. A maiden hurdle scorer at Naas in November 2010, Dessie Hughes’s gelding was last sighted finishing fourth in a Grade 1 novice at the Punchestown Festival last May, but he defied the 240-day [...]
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Mouse Morris is pleased there is no lasting damage to his Cheltenham Festival winner First Lieutenant after his bad mistake in the Drinmore Novice Chase at Fairyhouse on Sunday. Davy Russell performed miracles to stay in the saddle after his blunder at the eighth fence but after briefly getting back into contention, he was forced [...]
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Voler La Vedette (7-4) showed a fine turn of foot to win the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse to complete a fantastic weekend for jockey Andrew Lynch. Having ridden Sizing Europe to win the Tingle Creek at Sandown on Saturday, Lynch secured his second Grade One success of the weekend aboard Colm [...]
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Willie Mullins was the man to follow at Fairyhouse as he notched a near 4-1 treble highlighted by the victories of Mikael D’Haguenet and Des Champs. Mullins had made no secret of the regard in which he held Mikael D’Haguenet during his novice hurdling days, but a switch to fences last term failed to yield [...]
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Willie Mullins is responsible for four of the seven five-day acceptors for the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on Sunday. The County Carlow trainer dominates the possibles for the Grade One over two and a half miles with a foursome headed by Thousand Stars, winner of the Morgiana Hurdle at Punchestown recently. [...]
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Willie Mullins and Ruby Walsh dominated proceeding at Fairyhouse, with Sous Les Cieux (3-10) the standout performance of their combined double in the Fairyhouse Membership 2012 Maiden Hurdle. The French import found one too good on his Irish bow back in January but this time barely came off the bridle to win by six and [...]
Continue reading …Noel Meade and Paul Carberry were on fire with a Fairyhouse treble highlighted by the victory of dual bumper winner Dylan Ross in the New Tote Sports Lounge Maiden Hurdle. The five-year-old suffered a final-flight fall when leading on his hurdling debut at Down Royal last December, but there were no such alarms on this [...]
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Connections of Seanie were celebrating at Fairyhouse when the David Marnane-trained gelding scooped a big pot in the Tattersalls Ireland Super Auction Sale Stakes. Tough As Nails took the field along and looked to have a clear lead approaching the final furlong, but Seanie hit top gear under Colm O’Donoghue and swept past. Absolute Crackers [...]
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Rose Bonheur swooped fast and late under Declan McDonogh to land the feature Belgrave Stakes at Fairyhouse. Kevin Prendergast’s smart filly didn’t break well and was shuffled to the rear of the field in the early stages of the six-furlong Listed contest. But the 11-4 favourite found a nice gap in the straight and burst through [...]
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The fixture that was to be held at Fairyhouse on Sunday has been rescheduled to run on Thursday 2nd December, and will offer free entry for all racegoers. The track was inspected at midday on Saturday, after being deluged by a three inch covering of snow with the temperature at the course not climbing far [...]
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