Gordon Elliott has been banned from racing for 12 months, with six months suspended, and ordered to pay costs of €15,000, following his Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board referrals committee hearing. A photo of Elliott sitting on a dead horse appeared on social media last weekend, with the trainer admitting that the image was genuine in aContinue reading “Gordon Elliott has been banned for 12 months with 6 suspended”
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Cheltenham Festival Update: Latest Exhibition favours Fairyhouse instead of Cheltenham
Latest Exhibition, who was runner-up in the Albert Bartlett at last year’s Cheltenham Festival, looks likely to bypass this years event to run at Fairyhouse instead. Paul Nolan’s stable star was beaten just a neck by Monkfish 12 months ago, but the Willie Mullins-trained gelding has been a very difficult horse to beat in GradeContinue reading “Cheltenham Festival Update: Latest Exhibition favours Fairyhouse instead of Cheltenham”
No budge from the handicapper on Tiger Roll weight allocation
No Randox Health Grand National this year for Tiger Roll
Friday hearing with IHRB for Gordon Elliott
Gordon Elliott will face a Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board hearing on Friday in relation to the controversial photograph which emerged in recent days, but his career as a trainer has today been hit with a seismic blow following confirmation that Cheveley Park Stud will move their horses to the yards of trainers Willie Mullins and HenryContinue reading “Friday hearing with IHRB for Gordon Elliott”
Davy Russell is expecting to be back ready for Cheltenham
Davy Russell remains confident he will return to competitive action in time to ride at next month’s Cheltenham Festival. Russell – who won the Gold Cup aboard Lord Windermere in 2014 – has been on the sidelines since dislocating and fracturing vertebrae in a first-fence fall in the Munster National at Limerick in October aboardContinue reading “Davy Russell is expecting to be back ready for Cheltenham”
NAAS GETS THE ALL-CLEAR
Racing at Naas gets the go-ahead as Willie Mullins has three odds on runners in the first three races!
Pierre-Charles Boudot wins on Order Of Australia for O’Brien
The Aussies may have been singing “Waltzing Matilda” but it was Pierre-Charles Boudot that was waltzing home on Order Of Australia making it a one-two-three for Aidan O’Brien in the Breeders’ Cup Mile at Keeneland. He only got into the race after One Master was scratched on Thursday and the three-year-old was sent off aContinue reading “Pierre-Charles Boudot wins on Order Of Australia for O’Brien”
Tarnawa hoping for victory in the Breeders’ Cup Turf for Weld
7/2 chance Tarnawa may hold all the aces for the big clash at Keeneland
Magical and Ryan Moore ready for the Breeders’ Cup
Ryan Moore hoping to cast a spell on Magical at Keeneland
The Wizard will be hoping to perform magic
Magical and Ryan Moore will be hoping for glory in the Breeders’Cup