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Thrills And Spills of jump racing

The front cover image is of Barry Geraghty returning to the parade ring in a cloud of steamThe front cover image is of Barry Geraghty returning to the parade ring in a cloud of steam

A new book of Healy Racing Photographs will be published next week by O'Brien Press.

The 205 pages contain some of the best National Hunt images from the last decade from across Ireland, the UK and Irish point-to-points.

Delving into an archive of thousands of images, photographer Pat Healy and sports journalist Donn McClean have come together to share over 200 memorable moments from a decade (2011—2020) of Irish jump racing.

Covering the big race meetings at Cheltenham and Aintree, alongside many of the Irish racecourses and point-to-points — this collection celebrates the sheer spectacle that is the Irish jump racing scene.

Racing photographer supremo Pat ‘Cash’ Healy is known to many in the horse-racing world. His father Liam senior began the family horse-racing photography business in the 1970s, and today Pat and the other members of the HEALY RACING team, including his brother Liam, his nephews, Kevin and Sean, and his son, Jack, are familiar figures at racetracks around the country and the big race meetings abroad.

From following trainers, horses, owners and jockeys, HEALY RACING has captured thousands of precious moments in the great sport of horse racing, many of which can be viewed on their website healyracing.ie.

Award winning journalist Donn McClean has added descriptions to accompany each of the images which give the background to the photographs.

The book which is produced in hardback is priced at €24.99 and will be published on 19th October.

Pre-orders can be made via The O'Brien Press website