Dancing City beats better fancied stablemate in Grade 1 Novice Hurdle

Trainer Willie Mullins won the opening race of this years Dublin Racing Festival but not with the horse most punters would have expected. Given his huge strength in depth, stable second and third strings always deserve maximum respect and so it proved once again, as 16/1 outsider Dancing City stayed on powerfully to beat evens favourite Predators Gold in the Grade 1 Nathaniel Lacey & Partners Solicitors Novice Hurdle at Leopardstown. Sat 03rd Feb

Riviere D’etel stars in Elliott treble at Fairyhouse

Riviere D’etel ran away with the John &; Chich Fowler Memorial EBF Mares Chase for Gordon Elliott at Fairyhouse. Mon 01st Jan

Mullins and Townend off the mark with I Will Be Baie

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend today combined for their first winners of 2024 with I Will Be Baie (11/8) landing Fairyhouse's ITM Irish Stallion Trail 12-13 January Maiden Hurdle in the colours of the Roaringwater Syndicate. Mon 01st Jan

Intense Approach wins a thrilling finish to final race of Harvest Festival

Sat 23rd Sep

Mullins completes treble with odds-on bumper winner

First past the post in a Punchestown bumper in June only to lose the race in the stewards' room, the 4/7 favourite I Will Be Baie gained recompense with the minimum of fuss in the concluding Guinness Time INH Flat Race. Thu 03rd Aug

Maddens' outsider gets bumper in stewards' room

The 4/11 favourite I Will Be Baie just got home by a neck from 25/1 outsider Onlyamatteroftime in the Anglesey Lodge Equine Hospital (Pro/Am) Flat Race but the result was turned around after a stewards’ enquiry. Sat 10th Jun

Punchestown market movers

Outsider of the eight runners, Stansfield has attracted some support at prices and is into 12/1, from 25s, for the two-mile handicap chase at 2.30 Sat 10th Jun