Posts tagged Michael Kinane
Star quality deserves more
Jan 12th
So is Sea The Stars really 5lbs inferior to Dancing Brave? Well, the international handicappers think so – or maybe not. The World Thoroughbred Rankings for 2009 have been unveiled and Sea The Stars is rated 6lbs clear of any horse on the planet. So far, so predictable and he has also been raised 1lb [...]
Star gazers taken to another galaxy
Dec 31st
In Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong they were celebrating the Year of the Ox but racing had something extra; another consonant and a horse who would take the sport to another dimension. John Oxx has the appearance of a scholar allied to an IQ that probably reads like your Lottery numbers and he hit the [...]
Kinane times retirement to perfection
Dec 8th
Think of Michael Kinane and the image that fills the mind is that of an iceberg. On a horse, with the heat of battle raging around him, the Irishman rode with the coolness of one who had the nerve ends removed at birth. It is a faculty that made the man with ice-water in his [...]
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