Category Archives: SPORT

By Dan Walsh Despite the heavy going and wet conditions all three scheduled point-to-point fixtures this weekend survived and racing went ahead, although it was a quiet one for the Wexford raiders with only two victories. Kieran Roche who trains at Adamstown is having his most successful season to date and saddled his 15th trainingContinue reading “Two Wexford winners this weekend”

By Dan Walsh The first major steeplechase of the year – the Goffs Thyestes Chase – was run in heavy conditions at Gowran Park, Kilkenny, this afternoon and there was a dream victory on Now Is The Hour (8/1) for Eoin Staples, the 22 years old five-pound claimer from Duncormick. It was a competitive raceContinue reading “Thyestes glory for jockey Eoin Staples”

By Dan Walsh at Ballycrystal races Local handler Donnchadh Doyle’s stables were the one to follow at the Ballinagore Harriers point-to-point today where he saddled three of the six winners. There were also doubles for riders Rob James and Brian Lawless.The Monbeg Syndicate treble began with Cosmic Connection coming home three lengths to the goodContinue reading “Ballycrystal treble for Donnchadh Doyle”

By Dan Walsh The Ballinagore Harriers point-to-point takes place at Ballycrystal, near Kiltealy, on Sunday. The first race is at 12.30pm and 65 entries have been received for the six-race card. The going for Sunday is described as “yielding to soft, soft in places.” The weather forecast is for 7-8mm of rain from tonight (Friday)Continue reading “Ballycrystal races on Sunday”

By Dan Walsh at Fairwood Park, Tinahely Rathnure handler Robert Tector enjoyed a day to remember when he saddled a double this afternoon and narrowly missed out on a three timer. Tector was in Tinahely today and saddled Doubleosue to win the opening race – a maiden for five-year-old mares – while Phantom of DelightContinue reading “Distance double for Robert Tector”

By Dan Walsh LATEST NEWS; Racing goes ahead following a precautionary inspection at 7.30am on Saturday morning at Tinahely ahead of the rescheduled fixture that is due to take place later that day. The Shillelagh & District point-to-point races at Fairwood Park, Tinahely, have been rescheduled to Saturday. The first race is at 12.30pm, withContinue reading “Racing goes ahead at Tinahely”

By Dan Walsh There will be no point-to-point action at Fairwood Park, Tinahely, tomorrow (Sunday). The popular Tinahely track was found to be unfit for racing on this (Saturday) afternoon, and with an unfavourable weather forecast for Saturday night and Sunday morning, with a status yellow Low Temperature / Ice warning from Met Éireann, theContinue reading “Cancelled; Point-to-point races at Tinahely”

By Dan Walsh It isn’t every day that an amateur jockey commands the racing headlines but Rob James from Killanne had a most enjoyable day at Limerick races today (Monday) where he recorded a double success. James got off to a flying success aboard No Cure (5/1) for Kiltealy owner and trainer Gearoid O’Loughlin inContinue reading “James and Gainford in winning form”