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TALKING DOGS & HORSES
ENTRIES were revealed at the weekend for Dundalk's flagship race, and some interesting names are among the 32 possibles. The Group 3 Diamond Stakes is one in a series of ' win and you're in' races. The ' in' refers to the Breeders' Cup Marathon to be run at Churchill Downs on 5 November. Since it was first staged in 2008 every Marathon winner has prepped on the Dowdallshill allweather.
TALKING dogs & horses
UP until last Saturday 2010 wasn't panning out as Stephen Gray would have liked. The Dundalk jockey was finding winners hard to come by after a stellar 2009 which yielded victory in the Guinness Galway Hurdle aboard Bahrain Storm.
TALKING dogs and horses
FOR the first time all runners remaining in the Ladbrokes. com Irish Derby will be in action on the same night, and next Saturday's card features one particularly intriguing third round heat. There have been no major surprises so far. The first eighteen in the betting following the opening round are still there after last Thursday and Saturday nights' second round action.
TALKING dogs and horses
A TREBLE at The Curragh on Sunday, coming soon after another hat-trick at Leopardstown on Thursday evening, has strengthened Johnny Murtagh's bid for successive jockeys' championships.
FINAL WHISTLE: It's a race meeting not a horse show
AFTER enjoying the weeklong feast of horse racing that is the Galway Festival, ' Final Whistle' feels the need to have a rant about something that really gets under the skin regarding television coverage of the sport of kings - namely fashion. When a big race meeting is on, yours truly wants to see man and horse in perfect symmetry moving gracefully around the track, not frocks, feathers and high heels jaunting playfully around the periphery of the course.
TALKING dogs & horses
MANAGEMENT at Shelbourne Park is missing a trick by having a four-day gap between the close of entries and the first round draw for the Ladbrokes. com Irish Derby.
TALKING dogs and horses
PUNTERS need all the assistance they can get during the marathon Galway Festival which faced the starter on Monday. Despite the ultra-competitive nature of most of the races, contested in the main by average performers, you can't help but have a few bets.
TALKING dogs and horses
WORKFORCE will be having just his fourth racecourse appearance when lining up for next Saturday's King George. A win in a Goodwood Maiden was his sole start at two, but such was the manner of that performance that he went into many a notebook as one of the main English-trained contenders for the Derby.
TALKING Horses and dogs
THE supplementary entry system is set to boost next Sunday's Darley Irish Oaks in terms of quality as well as a significant cash injection to the Curragh coffers.
TALKING dogs and horses
NEXT Monday night's Boylesports International is the showpiece event of the year at Dundalk Stadium. The invitation race has attracted the best dogs from both sides of the Irish Sea to the old track at The Ramparts near the town centre and to its current home throughout a colourful history.
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