David Menuisier is keen to plunder more cross-Channel prize money with star three-year-old colts Sunway and Devil’s Point this spring.
Naas' first flat fixture of the year scheduled for Sunday will be run without sprint races, which have been cancelled due to parts of the sprint course being unfit for racing.
Trainer Paddy Twomey began the flat season with a Curragh winner on opening day yesterday and has issued an update on his principal runners, including last year's Beresford Stakes winner Deepone.
Chazzesmee could attempt an audacious Lincoln double after landing the Irish version today in the Curragh.
Brilliant (7/2) secured that all important Group 3 success in the Park Stakes over a mile in the Curragh.
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I'm from Wexford Town and I didn't have anything to do with horses or the horse industry initially - mum was a matron in Wexford General Hospital and dad was an accountant in a few different firms.
As a kid in primary school I met John Berry and became very friendly with him. We used to go up to his house after school and I got a bit of a love for the ponies up there. I rode ponies with him and basically that is where it all started from. I didn't know much about the horse industry but, from then, I wanted to be a jockey. Why? I don't know as there wasn't much of it on television and at that time I don't think I was even going up to the racecourse in Wexford. Something was in the head and that was it!
With a cohort of racing fans once again calling for Cheltenham to return to a three day Festival I thought it might be a bit of fun to take a break from all the form study and look back at what Cheltenham was really like when the Festival was done and dusted by Thursday afternoon.
The last time Cheltenham had a three day festival was way back in 2004. It was the same month the smoking ban came into force in Ireland and self-confessed punter Bertie Ahern was Taoiseach. It was also a time when Irish racing had plenty of friends in high places with Charlie McCreevy the Minister for Finance and Joe Walsh the Minister for Agriculture.
- Lough Leane will no doubt be popular after bringing up the hat-trick over a mile at Newcastle last week, but a 5lb penalty demands more of David Simcock's gelding. With that in mind, it may pay to side with REVERBERATION, who went agonisingly close to making all over a mile at Chelmsford last time and could go one better nudged up just 1lb. Plumette can often be a hostage to fortune under her usual waiting tactics, but if the cards fall right, she is weighted to strike.