#Tattersalls Ireland

Honeysuckle and Rachael Blackmore will aim to bounce back from her first defeat at Fairyhouse to win a fourth consecutive Irish Champion Hurdle This year's Dublin Racing Festival looks set to play host to a star-studded line-up after early entries for the two-day Irish calendar highlight at Leopardstown were revealed on Thursday. Eight Grade 1s…

Brazil: produced a smart performance to beat Fil Dor in Grade 3 company at Naas A race that at its entry stage had the likes of Vauban, Pied Piper, Gaelic Warrior, Icare Allen and Irish Point has ended up in an unexpected match - the first two-horse race at declaration stage in Ireland for a decade. There have been nine match races across the last…

Chris Hill brings us his round-up of the news from the bloodstock scene following a good weekend for Willie Mullins. With the Cheltenham Festival just over six weeks away, Willie Mullins' domination of the 2015-16 British and Irish jumps season showed no sign of relenting last week with the eight-time Irish champion trainer saddling all three…

Clock watchers couldn't fail to notice the lightning fast sectionals the Kodiac filly out of Yajala recorded during her two-furlong workout on Monday, and the well-related youngster duly drew a final bid of 460000gns on day two of the Tattersalls Craven Breeze-Up Sale. Jake Warren, stationed on the back stairs, tried hard to land the sought after…

Eddie Lynam: trainer of Jon Riggins, a well fancied favourite for the first race at the Curragh There are four back-to-back Group 1 races at the Curragh - it doesn't get any better than that! The Brits look likely protagonists in the Derrinstown Stud Flying Five Stakes (2.55), with Nunthorpe heroine Winter Power, Glass Slippers and Dragon Symbol at…

Cheltenham Festival 2022 is just weeks away. Key runners will continue their preparations at Leopardstown, with contenders for the Gold Cup and Champion Chase on show Honeysuckle and Appreciate It could meet in the Chanelle Pharma Irish Champion Hurdle Top class horses are put through their paces at this weekend's Dublin Racing Festival at…

Members of the Gallop Racing syndicated enjoyed what they described as a "red letter day" after Lakota Sioux provided them with their biggest-ever success when completing a 20.6-1 treble for Charlie and Mark Johnston in the Jewson Sweet Solera Stakes. Having finished third in the Listed Chesham Stakes at Royal Ascot 49 days ago, the daughter of…

Honeysuckle is as short as 1-2 to retain her Champion Hurdle crown at Cheltenham next month after making it 14 runs unbeaten in the Chanelle Pharma Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown. A third consecutive win in the feature race on day two of the Dublin Racing Festival looked a formality with Rachael Blackmore's mount sent off at odds of 1-5 and…

The Newmarket handler watched the Starspangledbanner colt from his home and is hopeful he will progress into a potential Classic horse next season. He is no stranger to Classic success, of course. He saddled a Group One winner in his first season at Manton when Dr Devious took the Dewhurst Stakes, then sent out Rodrigo De Triano to win the 2000…

BLOODSTOCK agent and ace talent spotter Tom Malone spent £5200 at the Tattersalls Ireland Ascot Summer Sale six years ago on the five-year-old Coole Cody, who had earlier won a point-to-point at Kildorrery by 20 lengths from one other finisher. He could hardly have envisaged that his cheap purchase, bred by Timmy Considine, would go on to win four…

The stars were out in force at Leopardstown over the weekend for yet another thrilling edition of the Dublin Racing Festival. As ever, it was a weekend of major winners and losers but not every horse that passed the winning post in front enhanced their claims of glory at next month's Cheltenham Festival. Willie Mullins was the headline act, winning…

BRED by Tony Slattery at his Milltown Britton Stud, the eight-year-old Noah And The Ark (Vinnie Roe) earned blacktype last weekend in some style, running out a nine-length winner of the Grade 1 Lonesome Glory Hurdle at Aqueduct. This success followed a 16-month layoff, and the Todd McKenna owned and trained Noah And The Ark took the honours at the…

If Accidental Agent does not manage to regain his Queen Anne Stakes crown, connections will no doubt be hoping his rival Mohaather lands the mile Group 1 instead. Accidental Agent is trained by Eve Johnson Houghton for her mother Gaie, who bred and has raced the six-year-old son of Delegator since he was a vendor buyback at just 8000gns at Book 2…