Posts tagged Ruby Walsh
No racing in Britain on Sunday
Dec 18th
There will be no racing in Britain on Sunday, after the all-weather card at Kempton was scrapped because of snow, and the Irish jump cards at Navan and Thurles both have to pass morning inspections. Looking further ahead, Monday’s cards at Ffos Las and Taunton are already cancelled, Punchestown hinges on an 8am inspection on [...]
Hurricane Fly is ready for take-off
Dec 18th
Ruby Walsh is still making his recovering from a double fracture to his right leg from a fall at Down Royal in November and does not expect to be back riding until late January at best. But events at Fairyhouse’s meeting on Wednesday gave the jockey even more reason to look forward to his return [...]
Kauto Star wins at Down Royal
Nov 7th
It may not have been breath-taking but Kauto Star put his crashing fall in last season’s Cheltenham Gold Cup behind him with a win at Down Royal. The Grade One JNwine.com Champion Chase may be the highlight of the course’s year but it was simply the starting point for Paul Nicholls as he looks to [...]
Tchico Polos wins Haldon Gold Cup
Nov 2nd
Tchico Polos may have won the race but stable companion Twist Magic proved that he is still a force to be reckoned with in the Grade Two totesport.com Haldon Gold Cup at Exeter. The first question was whether Twist Magic would consent to start in the limited handicap, in which he was conceding upwards 20lbs [...]
Celestial Halo falls on chasing debut at Exeter
Oct 19th
The markets said that he was a certainty and the official handicapper reckoned that he was at least 35lbs superior to any other horse in the race. Celestial Halo came to Exeter to make his chasing debut backed up by an impressive record over hurdles as the Triumph Hurdle winner of 2008 and the runner-up [...]
China Rock wins at Punchestown
Oct 15th
The battle was lost but there was little sense that the war had gone the same way at Punchestown. The task for the leading novices’ the following season is how to follow that peak performance. Sizing Europe had reached the top last season with a victory in the Grade One Arkle Trophy at the Cheltenham [...]
Walsh and Nicholls a rock-steady team
Jan 29th
A hectic working life that is split between the British and Irish fixture lists means that Ruby Walsh will never be a challenger to Tony McCoy’s iron grip on the jump jockeys’ title. However, when he is riding in Britain, Walsh is clearly a jockey to follow. A strike-rate of 33% for the season simply [...]
Denman jockey needs to be real McCoy
Jan 26th
The trainer has described the question as “crazy” and the jockey has said no-one has asked him, but the debate is as persistent as the one that keeps buzzing around Gordon Brown about when he will call a general election. As denials go, they were both succinct enough. Ever since Denman stormed back to top [...]
Twist in the tale looks unlikely
Dec 7th
Absence may make the heart grow fonder but what did we learn from Saturday’s big race at Sandown? Master Minded has dominated the two-mile chasing division for the past two seasons but, now that he is on the sidelines with a rib injury until the new year at the earliest, Keith Prowse Hospitality Tingle Creek [...]
Denman pulling his weight once more
Nov 30th
Earlier this year the great and the good of British racing launched Racing For Change, their latest vessel to carry the sport through the choppy seas of mass-public indifference to the promised land of packed grandstands. Since then any number of bright ideas have been put forward to make racing more appealing but few will [...]
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