Coronavirus permitting… It better get lost for next week anyway! The Cheltenham festival is one of a kind. The bookies are crammed with workers on their lunch break and students in a mad scramble to get a fiver down before the off. Where else would you get it? For one week in March, the whole […]

6 years ago

Rachael Blackmore. Bryony Frost. Lisa O’Neill. Katie O’Farrell. When Katie Walsh and Nina Carberry stood side by side at Punchestown last year announcing their retirements, it would have been very easy to fear for the future of female horse riding. For years, Walsh and Carberry were the trailblazers and the standard bearers. They kept the […]

7 years ago

AP McCoy is standing up for the Irish jockey. Irish amateur jockey Declan Lavery was slapped with a ten day ban for his ride on Jerrysback in the National Hunt Challenge Cup on Tuesday afternoon. The Philip Hobbs trained seven-year-old was ridden to a third place finish in the four miler – a slog that […]

7 years ago

If you’re not caught up in it, you’re missing out. Bookie offices are crammed with workers on their lunch break and students in their skinny tracksuits. The mad scramble to get a fiver down before the off has the whole country humming and buzzing about the place and once the money is on and the […]

7 years ago

Like a Gold Cup good thing. Finally, after entries aplenty and withdrawals to follow, Presenting Percy made his seasonal re-appearance on Thursday afternoon in Gowran Park and just like last year, Pat Kelly’s horse made it worth the wait. In fairness, this was probably always the plan. After coasting to a mouthwatering RSA Chase victory […]

7 years ago