Racing

October 1, 2006 12:13 AM

The best of times

Jim Delahunt in the saddle

IF racing is your passion, this day of days has been a long time coming. We have known for more than a week that it wouldn’t be a large field and that some of the biggest names would not be...

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September 17, 2006 12:18 AM

Cup runneth over

Jim Delahunt

APART from Champion Hurdle Day at Cheltenham and the opening days of Royal Ascot and Glorious Goodwood, Tuesdays tend to be quiet from a racing point of view but all that changes this week when The Curragh stages Ryder Cup...

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September 10, 2006 1:06 AM

On the borderline

Jim Delahunt in the saddle

SCOTLAND stages its richest Flat meeting of the year this week when the three-day Western Meeting (sorry, the totesport Ayr Gold Cup Festival) runs from 2.10pm on Thursday through to Saturday’s final event at 5.45. It is a 22-race spectacular...

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September 2, 2006 12:19 PM

Time for a change to the way we race?

Jim Delahunt on the need to revisit the rules governing Group One race scheduling

The veteran bloodstock journalist Peter Willett has bemoaned the fact that too many mundane Group One races are ruining the International Pattern system which, since 1965, has sought to ensure that a series of races, over the right distances at...

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