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The lure of the grey
04 March 2010
LADS and lasses are different – fact. Forget it, lads, at your peril! Stable lads do get fond of their horses, even attached to them in some instances. But lasses can and do get emotionally involved with their four-footed charges. Remember Janice Coyle and Desert Orchid?
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Scandals and stewards
25 February 2010
There’s only days to go to racecourse chaos unless the Turf Club can mend its fences with its embittered officials.
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Never mock racing gods
18 February 2010
Headlines sell newspapers - fact. Nonetheless, the front page of Saturday’s Irish Field: ‘DREAM TEAM - Tony Mc-Coy joins forces with Denman for the first time’, Accompanied by a photo-montage superimposing McCoy’s face in place of Denman’s former jockey evoked an immediate reaction - hubris. It is a Greek term for mocking the gods.
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The real Captain Cee Bee
11 February 2010
WHAT a talking horse Captain Cee Bee has become, now an even shorterpriced favourite for the Arkle at Cheltenham following a bloodless victory at Naas last Saturday.
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No such thing as like for like
04 February 2010
Nothing entertains an erstwhile racing official as much as watching the authorities agonise over how to eliminate opportunism.
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Omit the stewards, increase the speed
28 January 2010
THE recent, involuntary mid-winter racing recess obliged racing scribes to think ‘outside the box’.
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Too much breeding simply bad feeding
21 January 2010
How unsurprising to read that the numbers of thoroughbred foals expected to be born in these islands in the coming months is dramatically down on previous years. Equally unsurprising that Weatherbys should be leading this lament.
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Racing had these weather woes before
14 January 2010
AS weather historians clutter the national airwaves bewailing the greatest national paralysis in living memory, the more mature recall the annual lead-up to the Cheltenham Festival of 1963.
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How to compare the greatest of all time
07 January 2010
Sea The Stars is the greatest horse to have been trained on the Curragh of Kildare! If this claim is true, it can only be based on that most invidious of yardsticks – comparison.
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Putting Mick Kinnane in context
17 December 2009
Michael Kinane’s decision to bow out at the top, quitting the stage along with the finest horse he ever rode, sees him do so with 13 Irish championships to his credit. Did any of his predecessors even come close?
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