Posts tagged Leopardstown
Hennessy Gold Cup meeting rescheduled
Feb 6th
Plans for many of Ireland’s leading Cheltenham Festival contenders were thrown into chaos when the meeting at Leopardstown was abandoned. To read the full story: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/hennessy-gold-cup-meeting-rescheduled/news/1338693
Pride of Dulcote ready for Cheltenham exam
Feb 4th
The search for the next Irish-trained winner of the totesport Cheltenham Gold Cup may not bear much fruit this weekend. The Grade One Hennessy Gold Cup, run at Leopardstown on Sunday, has seven home runners none of whom make more than a feint blip on the radar of the market for Cheltenham yet the one [...]
Nick Scholfield ready to take his chance
Feb 2nd
Patience and youth does not always sit comfortably but Nick Scholfield has waited for his moment. Ever since stable jockey Ruby Walsh was ruled out for four months with a broken leg a succession of jockeys – headed by 15-times champion Tony McCoy – have come in for the plum rides at the Paul Nicholls [...]
Pandorama rated only 50-50 for crack at the Gold Cup
Jan 25th
Ireland’s leading hope for the Cheltenham Gold Cup, Pandorama, has been found to have gone lame following some light work out on the gallops. Read more at: http://horse-racing.bettor.com/pandorama-rated-only-50-50-for-crack-at-the-gold-cup/news/1338193
Willie Mullins quiet about Hurricane Fly
Jan 21st
It might be the meeting on everyone’s mind but Willie Mullins was not about to let mention of it pass his lips. “I’m not mentioning the C-word,” Mullins said in mock fear before Hurricane Fly runs in the Grade One BHP Insurances Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown on Sunday. The vow of silence is the [...]
Mikael d’Haguenet flops at Leopardstown
Dec 30th
For the second day running Willie Mullins ran one of the bankers of the day at Leopardstown and probably wished he had not. Mikael d’Haguenet, like Zaidpour 24 hours before, was backed with the enthusiasm of those who were looking to pay the Christmas bills, but those backers may still be trying to settle up [...]
Dermot Weld thinking of Grand National for Majestic Concorde
Dec 30th
Dermot Weld may have floored most backers when rank outsider Majestic Concorde won the Paddy Power Chase at Leopardstown the previous day but Hidden Universe was odds-on for the Bord na Mona Clean Water Maiden Hurdle, and won just as the market suggested. Robbie McNamara had the four-year-old in front from the start and, in [...]
Pandorama delivers timely reminder in Lexus Chase
Dec 28th
Ireland craves a new equine hero and it may have just found one after Pandorama won the Grade One Lexus Chase on the opening day of the weather-delayed Christmas meeting at Leopardstown. The days when Ireland had the first three home in a Champion Hurdle twice at the same time that Kicking King and War [...]
Mourad asked to take on the world
Dec 28th
Pretenders to the crown of champion staying hurdler, currently held by Big Buck’s, may be thin on the ground. That much is proved by the fact that only five are prepared to take on the Paul Nicholls horse in the Long Walk Hurdle at Newbury on Wednesday. But Mourad put himself in with a shout [...]
Hurricane Fly and Solwhit clash again in December Festival Hurdle
Dec 28th
Willie Mullins will be well represented in the three Grade One races on the second day of the Christmas meeting at Leopardstown on Wednesday. Hurricane Fly and Solwhit meet for a fourth time in the paddypower.com iPhone App December Festival Hurdle at Leopardstown, for which five runners have been declared. Luska Lad, the County Hurdle [...]
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