#Gavin Ryan

The first of two days of top class horse racing action takes place at Leopardstown this afternoon as Irish Champions Weekend kicks off. The eight-race card features two Group 1s, two Group 2s, one Group 3, a listed race and two incredibly competitive handicaps. Just seven line up in the Irish Champion Stakes, but it is a high class field, as you…

THE Irish Derby betting markets have been rocked after Aidan O'Brien decided to supplement Oaks winner Tuesday. Bookies had reported'one-way traffic' for favourite Westover. But there now looks like market turmoil for ante-post backers with the news Ryan Moore is to ride the superstar filly, who saw off Emily Upjohn in a thriller at…

Siskin: won the 2020 Irish 2000 Guineas, but who will score at the Curragh on Saturday? Your guide to Saturday's Tattersalls Irish 2000 Guineas at the Curragh, the first Classic of the season in Ireland.

Ben Coen got the better of his brother Jake to win the handicap over the extended eight furlongs on the Tom Mullins-trained San Aer at Galway on Bank Holiday Monday. Owned by the trainer's wife Helen, the four-year-old left it late but led in the final strides to beat the Matthew Smith-trained Excuzio Joe by half a length, with Andrew…

Mother Earth winning the 1000 Guineas at Newmarket Top honours in the three-year-old fillies' mile division will be up for grabs as Guineas winners Mother Earth and Empress Josephine face off in the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot on Friday. Ryan Moore will partner Qipco 1000 Guineas winner Mother Earth with Seamie Heffernan continuing his…

GALERON ENSURED the majority of the huge prize-money up for grabs in the Goffs Million would head back across the Irish Sea with a clear-cut victory at the Curragh. A total prize fund of over €1.2millon was actually up for grabs in the seven-furlong contest and 19 juveniles went to post. Galeron, trained by Charlie Hills, finished down the field in…

Aidan O'Brien may have provided the odds-on favourite, Aesop's Fables (8/13) in the Goffs Vincent O'Brien National Stakes at The Curragh on Sunday, but it was his two sons, Joseph and Donnacha, who dominated proceeding at the end of the Group 1 contest. Joseph O'Brien beat his younger brother Donnacha as Al Riffa held off Proud And Regal by a…