Aidan O'Brien's Kyprios is one of 17 entries for Saturday's SBK Vintage Crop Stakes on Saturday and the master of Ballydoyle is anticipating a good run from the Galileo gelding on seasonal debut.
Jessica Harrington is considering which hurdle race to go for at the Punchestown festival with her mare Jetara, a Listed and Grade 3 winner earlier in the season.
On-course bookmaker Brian McDonnell has confirmed the veracity of a €250 each-way bet struck at 100/1 on Friday, with industry losses from a Declan Queally-trained Limerick/Ballinrobe cross-card double exceeding €500,000.
Annexation fairly rattled home in race five at Gowran Park to bring up an across-the-card treble for Henry de Bromhead.
Camelot Alexander really devoured the ground in the Gowran Park Handicap over an extended nine furlongs to give Jessica Harrington and Shane Foley a double.
Weather has always been the number one topic of conversation in Ireland which is most odd considering we don’t actually get extreme weather events like other countries and for the most part we don’t even have seasons.
Up to last Saturday it had rained almost every day since July, but that hasn’t stopped our population discussing the weather incessantly. Weddings, funerals, business meetings, casual encounters in the street, every conversation starter is invariably about the weather.
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I'm from Monasterevin, Co Kildare and I'm riding since I could walk really. My grandad used to have a few of his own horses. None of my family would really be into racing, but I got into riding ponies. Then, when I was about 11 or 12, I started pony racing which is a great place to start. It gives you loads of experience of race riding and gets your brain set up for the track. My cousin Aidan Melia supplied me with more than 20 winners pony racing. He was very good to me and got me going. I was all over the country pony racing up to Donegal and down to Kerry and sometimes over to Scotland as well. When I was about 11, I was in with trainer Seamus Fahey and he was very good to me. He got me going riding racehorses and gave me loads of experience riding work. I was always small when I was young and everyone used to tell me I should be a jockey. Thank God I stayed that way and my weight is good. I wouldn't wake up more than eight stone every morning. Hopefully, things stay like that.
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Vincent, Johnny and Emma discuss all of the major talking points from the past week
