‘HI, I am looking for any information on my grandfather Richard Cullen.
LAST week’s edition of The Nationalist was greatly enhanced by that charming photograph of the lovely Tara Lynham – three years married to the lucky Jason – whose picture framing skills have long been appreciated in this quarter, where she has always been known by her maiden name – Tara Gale.
Historical research necessitates an awful lot of reading, some of it rewarding, but much of it fruitless.
DEMONSTRATING reserves of stamina that many a younger man could only envy, veteran race analyst Tony Sweeney nominated his ‘Two against the field’ for every single race throughout the seven-day Galway marathon.
NAME AP McCoy’s longest-priced winner?
’The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes – and ships – and sealing wax –
Of cabbages – and kings –
And why the sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.’
They say that only those with heightened intimations of mortality peruse the death columns in the daily papers.
TUNING in to see Karasiyra’s successful attempt to gain ‘Listed’ winner status in the Lenebane Stakes at Roscommon answered another question. Why was stable jockey Fran Berry riding for another trainer in the same race?
So much of what we are told goes in one ear and out the other, fortunately.
The champagne bar won out over the EBF Premier Fillies’ Handicap, even though both the senior grandson and Milady’s nephew had runners in it.