
Bidding for more magical memories
Sometimes sport spoils us, providing epic encounters, performances to quicken the pulse and warm the soul, glory days that last mere moments but whose memory lingers long after the race is run.
Godolphin have had a few false dawns at the start of recent seasons, but Charlie Appleby's Masar set pulses racing yesterday with a devastating nine-length victory over White Mocha in the Craven...
Robbie Power led the tributes to Our Duke, declaring him "one of the best I've ever ridden", as Jessica Harrington's star chaser sadly passed away yesterday after a massive heart attack at her Commonstown Stables.
Trainer Jessica Harrington has announced the death of Irish Grand National winner Our Duke.
With an astonishing 1,161 runners so far this season, there is rarely a jumps race where Gordon Elliott isn't represented and today's seven-race Fairyhouse card is no different.
Godolphin - fresh from winning four Group One races on Dubai World Cup night - landed the first meaningful domestic Classic trial of the spring when Soliloquy comfortably took the featured...
Champion trainer Willie Mullins threw the kitchen sink at the RYBO Handicap Hurdle at Fairyhouse and got the desired - if unexpected - result with 25/1 outsider Low Sun.
Robin Of Navan can get the job done when he makes a rare outing on home shores in the Earl of Sefton Stakes at Newmarket.
No stone will be left unturned in Willie Mullins' bid to maintain his Irish trainer's championship, with the Closutton master firing every available dart at some valuable prizes on a cracking Fairyhouse card today.
Michael Mulvany is eyeing a potential tilt at the Galway Hurdle for stable star On The Go Again (4/1) after providing him with the first Listed success of his training career at Leopardstown...
Grand National winning jockey Davy Russell has paid tribute to his mother, Phyllis, following his Aintree success on Tiger Roll.
What's the difference between €576,714 and €8,624? It may be a huge sum of money, but for Davy Russell it's nothing. Winning the Aintree Grand National on Saturday is one thing but to turn up...
Davy Russell's purple patch continued at Tramore yesterday as he made his first ride since landing the Grand National on Tiger Roll a winning one when scoring on Decision Time.
Ger Lyons will be hoping age is no barrier with stalwart Brendan Brackan as the nine-year-old bids for his sixth Listed success on his seasonal bow in the Heritage Stakes (5.0) at Leopardstown today.
Davy Russell, the oldest jockey in the race, capped a magnificent riding career when he rode Tiger Roll, one of the most accomplished little horses of the last few years, to a dramatic, last-gasp...
Cheltenham Festival runner-up Black Op went one better with a determined display in the Betway Mersey Novices' Hurdle at Aintree yesterday.
The story of the 2018 Grand National was written across the face of the winning jockey. As Davy Russell made his way back to the parade ring, the smile creasing his weather-beaten face was one...
Gustav Klimt booked his ticket for Newmarket in swooping late to bag the Ballylinch Stud 2,000 Guineas Trial Stakes at Leopardstown yesterday.
Racing fans have heaped praise on Grand National-winning jockey Davy Russell after he dedicated his victory to fellow jockey Pat Smullen, who was...
Tiger Roll and Davy Russell held on to claim a dramatic victory in the Randox Health Grand...
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A chap by the name of Pitirim Sorokin, who was a Russian-born American sociologist, coined the phrase quantophrenia in the 1950s. It means having an obsessive reliance on statistics and figures.
It's 179 years since Lottery won the first Grand National while Captain Becher took refuge in his infamous Brook and cursed the taste of water without whiskey.
"MY heart is pounding. Me, Timmy Murphy from Kilcullen in Kildare, Grand National-winning jockey. It almost doesn't seem right."
Given what he has gone on to achieve, it's amazing that Gordon Elliott hadn't even trained a winner in Ireland when Silver Birch secured the Aintree Grand National 11 years ago.
Politologue thrust Paul Nicholls and Sam Twiston-Davies back into the limelight with a thrilling victory in the JLT Melling Chase at Aintree.
It's Day Two if the Grand National festival at Aintree today and Ireland are sending over a strong raiding party. Here is a preview of the action and top tips from our experts.
Jamie Codd will miss the Thursday and Friday of the Punchestown after he was handed a £400 fine...
Top-weight Minella Rocco has been declared a non-runner in the Randox Health Grand National at Aintree on Saturday on account of the ground.
Might Bite made light of a gruelling Gold Cup run last month to stamp his class all over the Betway Bowl on day one of Aintree's Grand National meeting with trainer Nicky Henderson declaring...
The headline act on day two of Aintree's Grand National meeting is just that as Irish duo Balko Des Flos and Min collide in the Melling Chase (3.25).
There's no shortage of class on show in a seven-race Naas card today with the notable return of last year's Irish Derby and Doncaster St Leger hero Capri.
L'Ami Serge won for the first time since the French Champion Hurdle in June in the Betway Aintree Hurdle.
Might Bite stamped his class on the Betway Bowl with a comfortable victory at Aintree.
Neither Willie Mullins nor Gordon Elliott are represented on day one of the Aintree Grand National meeting and today's Limerick meeting is the benefactor, with a cracking eight-race card...
It's never a bad day's racing when the opening quartet are all Grade One contests and such is the case as the jumps focus turns to Aintree as the Grand National meeting kicks into action.
Last week Rachael Blackmore thought she would be spending this Saturday riding in a race at Leopardstown. Instead she will be sitting astride Alpha Des Obeaux on the start line of the Grand...
The first two-year-olds of the year to emerge from Ballydoyle run at Dundalk this evening.
The acquisition of a DEXA scan machine by the Irish Injured Jockeys (IIJ) has been described as a "very exciting step in the care of our riders," according to Dr Adrian McGoldrick, the Irish Horseracing...
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