Fair to say
@dan2231
is a decent skin. He’s ridden 39 jumps winners for John Ryan down through the years, a tally that’s only bettered when linking up with WPM (81) and his mother Mags (51).
But he’s much more than just a jockey to Ryan.
Worth a read 👇
💬 “I do my own thing and, I don't mean to be disrespectful, I'll take anyone on and play hard and fair. I wouldn't give an inch to anyone”
Brian Sheerin talks to a jumps trainer making waves in the old-fashioned way
Read with Members' Club Ultimate 👇
Double for Charles Byrnes at Killarney, both horses owned by him and for sale. “Everything in those colours are for sale. If the wife is wearing them, then you know she’s for sale too,” he says!
Without doubt the coolest thing about the JHRA Select Sale is how the foals are available for viewing alongside their dams in the forest behind the sales ring. Some big names on show here.
Coming in after the bumper and Codd tells Elliott, ‘this is the best horse that will ever run around Downpatrick anyway.’ Punchestown Champion bumper could be next.
#Ballyadam
Got married on Tuesday, first winner in my own colours on Friday. I hope she doesn’t ask me what the highlight of the week was! 😜
Well done
@Ktcoleman330
,
@SeanGrassick
,
@Donovanbldstock
& everyone else involved in Benavente.
MV Magnier said afterwards, “When the time comes, we’ll probably send her to Auguste Rodin. When he won the Derby, I’d say it was 30 second later when Dad [John] rang me and said, ‘this is the most important thing that has happened to
@coolmorestud
since Galileo won the Derby.”
⭐️ Alpine Star sells for €6million
@Goffs1866
The G1 winning mare, who is a half-sister to two G1 winners, is in-foal to Frankel and has been bought by M V Magnier. By Sea The Moon, she was consigned by Kiltinan Castle Stud as part of the Niarchos Draft.
Emmet Mullins’ The Shunter has been snapped up by JP McManus.
Frank Berry said: “There are a few things to be ironed out but the deal is done and hopefully he will run in our colours tomorrow. He will stay in training with Emmet after tomorrow.”
More on
@RacingPost
soon.
Northern Farm will offer 180 lots at the JRHA Select Sale, including this handsome ✈️ Flightline colt ✈️.
Lot 419 is one of only three Flightline foals in the sale and is out of Tan Gritona, a champion 2yo filly in Argentina.
Fair to say I never got a report card like this when I was in school. Lots of smart 2yos here but a No Nay Never colt named Alabama is put forward as being top of the class by Aidan O’Brien.
It’s another Punchestown retirement (sort of!) as that’s all from me at the
@RacingPost
.
Privileged to have worked for the team in Ireland for almost six years.
Special thanks to the boss man
@R_Forristal
and
@DavidJenningsRP
. Been a blast.
Henry de Bromhead has just confirmed that Robbie Power will keep the ride aboard Minella Indo in the Cheltenham Gold Cup.
Story to follow on
@RacingPost
soon.
Cracking morning with John Nallen.
His place is abuzz with former graduates Minella Indo, Minella Crooner and Minella Cocooner to look forward to
@CheltenhamRaces
this month.
A great character who continues to produce quality horses.
Piece in next Monday’s
@RacingPost
.
“When you get to my age [91] you begin to think, 'this can't go on forever'”
Legendary trainer Kevin Prendergast tells
@theTDN
that he has put his famous Friarstown Stables on the market.
“I told
@OrrOisin
going out there to remember he’s [Spirit Dancer] a Frankel.”
Sir Alex Ferguson describes winning the $1m Bahrain Trophy with the
@RichardFahey
-trained Spirit Dancer as “the best ever”.
Some Gigginstown news. Kim Muir favourite Run Wild Fred and long-time Martin Pipe fancy Wide Receiver to miss Cheltenham.
RWF to wait for the Irish Grand National while WR out for the rest of the season through injury.
Story with Eddie O’Leary up later on
@RacingPost
.
Spent a morning in Cullentra last week for today's eight-page
@gelliott_racing
stable tour in the
@RacingPost
.
American Mike spoken about in the same breath as Don Cossack, Queens Brook fancied for the Mares' Hurdle, The Bosses Oscar for the NH Chase and much more.
Absolutely devastating news reported by
@grovestud
this evening. RIP Valdi.
“He was just an absolute gentleman–the kindest, nicest and gentlest person you would ever wish to meet.”
Some interesting Gigginstown updates from Eddie O’Leary in today’s
@RacingPost
. Wind ops for Samcro & Apple’s Jade during the summer, Commander Of Fleet & Defi Bleu out for season, a max of 30 horses going dispersal sale plus hefty Tiger Roll chat.
Including lot 400, who will be the first Baaeed foal to be sold anywhere in the world. He’s one of six foals being offered by Irishman Harry Sweeney of Paca Paca Farm.
Enjoyed speaking with
@hantham
, a real good egg and an even better judge, for the first
@theTDN
Q&A this winter.
“I'd love to be involved in a Group 1 horse. It might take a long time but that's the aim.”
👇
Benavente getting a feel for the track
@LingfieldPark
this morning under
@Ktcoleman330
.
Pretty cool to have Harry Redknapp as a new partner in the horse. 🤞🤞for a good run.
🗣️ "We're in this for the long haul and we don't take shortcuts. We try to treat people right and, if we both win, that's how you really succeed."
@BrianSheerin91
sits down with the O'Callaghans of Tally-Ho Stud (
@HoStud
).
Ever wonder what a day in the life of a top-notch rider is like? Wonder no more. Thanks to
@wjlee24786
for putting up with us for a full day, the fruits of which can be read here or in tomorrow's
@RacingPost
. Piece brought to life by
@patrickmccannrp
.
Have you heard about Atalis, the broodmare who spent time pulling carriages in Belgium before 🕵️♂️
@kevinblake2011
🕵️♂️ tracked her down?
Her son Atalis Bay, who runs
@haydockraces
tomorrow, kick-started the interest.
Story via
@BrianSheerin91
here 👉
Thanks to Harry Sweeney for sitting down for breakfast with me in Japan last week.
The contents of which can be read below - one of the most enjoyable pieces I’ve put to print in a long time!
“The thing that would frighten you is that we got into millions of euros very quickly.”
One of the best producers of NH talent,
@farmerdoyle16
bids for a Grade 1 breakthrough in his own name with Monbeg Park
@NaasRacecourse
today.
Find out more 👇
A little story Rory Cleary’s father Tom told me today that didn’t make the paper due to space.
“I will never forget when Rory was three years of age he got a very bad fall off one of his ponies. The roars out of him, I can still remember it vividly to this day...
Rory Cleary spoke to the hearts of so many in racing as he proved, with a lot of hard work and a generous helping of magic, good things can happen to good people |
@BrianSheerin91
Read now with Members' Club Ultimate 👇
Red Kelly marks
@JohnnyMurtagh
’s 22nd winner of the season, meaning the yard has already equalled last season’s tally despite sending out 172 fewer runners... decent going.
Spoke with Emmet Mullins for today’s
@RacingPost
ahead of
@Galway_Races
.
A complex character, he spoke openly about gambles, the lengths he goes to in order to keep everyone guessing, the buying and the placing of horses, his squad for next week and much more.
🎯
Chris Gordon has won his defamation case, estimated to have costs well in excess of €1m, against the Irish Racehorse Trainers Association by unanimous verdict.
As well as being awarded his costs, Gordon will receive damages, it has just been confirmed in the High Court.
Spent a day in the life of
@Robsonadeaguiar
this week and had my eyes opened to the amount of work one man can get done in a day.
Good insight to the
@amoracingltd
relationship, how much he values his time spent with
@HoStud
, goals for the future and more.
👇
🗣️"The money I got for [The Lir Jet] and then Star Of Emaraaty is the money I used to buy this farm."
@BrianSheerin91
sits down with
@Robsonadeaguiar
, leading breeze-up handler, pre-trainer & more recently assistant trainer to Adrian Murray.
Thanks to Shadai’s Naohiro Hosoda for the tour of the stallions. Here are a few more vids to clog up your timeline, starting with Kitasan Black, sire of Equinox.
Piece in tomorrow's
@RacingPost
with the remarkable
@davym15
or online here --> .
Mullins hoping to be fit in time for Cheltenham, just five months after breaking his back at Thurles, and I wouldn't be betting against him.
“I said to Gerry that, if Richard hadn't found anyone for the horse, I'd love to have him. By the end of the day, I owned him.”
Great speaking with the legend that is Robert Hall about his first runner, Frogman, with
@RJOBracing
@NaasRacecourse
2moro 🐸
The great No Risk At All, sire of Allegorie De Vassy, who should harden her reputation as a leading Cheltenham Festival contender
@thurlesraces
today.
Already the sire of Allaho and Epatante, it’s easy to see why
@HarasMontaigu
’s No Risk At All is so popular with NH breeders.
Nice chatting to Peter Brant for this week’s Q&A in
@theTDN
.
Covered many angles, including his admiration for Aidan O’Brien, why he keeps half his mares
@coolmorestud
, how he plans on being
@InfoArqana
next week and the future of turf racing in the US.
More international success for
@HoStud
’s Mehmas as Hapipi Go Lucky, formerly trained by
@JohnnyMurtagh
for Fitzwilliam Racing, bags a $400k handicap
@thesaudicup
meeting. Picked up for just 11,000gns at the
@Tattersalls1766
Autumn HIT Sale in 2021.
Love-ly sendoff for IGN-winning trainer Dot Love with Flindt back at the scene of her greatest triumph
@Fairyhouse
.
Best of luck to
@CiaranM19394903
who takes over officially as trainer in the coming days at Charlestown.
A biggie this week as
@nickluck
answers the questions for a change in
@theTDN
Q&A.
‘I walked around thinking I was a cross between John Magnier and Marcel Boussac! The barren three and a half years that followed have swiftly eradicated that notion.’
Nice to see Free Nelson put his best foot forward to finish second in the opening maiden hurdle
@ClonmelR
today and even nicer to see the great judge that is
@rpdarkhorse
made him the 👁catcher of the day. Not an easy man to please!
🤞he can go one better next time.
Not an easy name to pronounce, but Beaumec De Houelle could be an interesting one for NH breeders in Britain and Ireland being a Grade 1-winning hurdler by Martaline.
One of the best producers of National Hunt talent, could
@farmerdoyle16
be about to make his mark with 2yos as well?
‘We’d like to start training 2yos. Donnchadh & myself will do them & they'll run in my name. We'll probably do a few breezers as well.’
👇
“If you're worrying about money, it's not really the job for you. You have to let it unfold in front of you.”
Top
@irishp2p
handler
@farmerdoyle16
talks about Grade 1 hope Monbeg Park, the highs & lows that come with trading horses & much more.
👇
Epiphaneia, who is something of an equine equivalent of a limousine. He’s the sire of the Japanese Derby winner Danon Decile and is an all round cool dude. 😎
One of the best training performances of the decade to get Tiger Roll back up off the canvas to record his fifth Cheltenham festival success.
Well done to all the team @ Cullentra.
#Class
🗣 “I’m delighted for the whole team at Cullentra. It means the world to us all."
Tiger Roll stuns Easysland to join Cheltenham greats with fifth festival win
Spent a memorable morning on the gallops with Eddie Lynam and his daughters Sarah and Amy to talk all things
#Soffia
and more for today’s RP Sunday On Location piece --> . Photos from ace snapper
@patrickmccannrp
.
What better way to get in the mood for the Derby than an in depth Q&A with a man who has won the race twice?
John Oxx kick-starts a new weekly Q&A series in TDN Europe where he talks all things Epsom and much more.
Big news that Gigginstown are back with
@WillieMullinsNH
. Shanbally Kid, who fetched £190k after winning his bumper, to look forward to.
Also, Land Rover Bumper runner-up Miss Augusta, sold for €235,000 at the Ptown Sale, will carry the maroon and white for
@gelliott_racing
.
Big news ahead of the National Hunt season in 🇮🇪 with Eddie O’Leary confirming Gigginstown House Stud are back with
@WillieMullinsNH
.
O’Leary said, “It is a long road that doesn’t turn.”
Interesting that 🇺🇸
@RepoleStable
🇺🇸bought five 🇯🇵 yearlings for roughly €1.64 million, including two by Drefong and a Contrail.
@Alex_Solis_II
, ‘Mike is enamoured with Japanese racing - it’s the middle of the night in America but he was on the phone for every horse we bought.’
“This year's results are better than last year which I am truly surprised about.”
More Records Broken
@SELECTSALE_eng
as Kitasan Black Colt Clears €3.34m.
@BrianSheerin91
has the report 👇
Extraordinary couple of mornings with
@Ballydoyle
and
@JosephOBrien2
opening their doors. Ten Sovereigns, Kew Gardens and Capri just a few standouts in this lot alone.
#ammunition
A colt by 🇮🇪 Siskin 🇮🇪, who will be offered by Shadai Farm.
Teruya Yoshida said, “Siskin is going to be a very good sire–I am sure. He was very unfortunate to get injured at the start of the breeding season when he first arrived. I will be sending good mares to him.”
‘I can remember sitting in my kitchen when we bought him. We had to give about 10 grand more than we wanted to but Sam wouldn't let me not buy him.’
Sam Haggas and
@gbougheyracing
: the deadly duo talk buying, selling and winning in this week’s Q&A.