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He is a former six-time amateur champion jockey in Ireland, winning the 1983 Aintree Fox Hunters' Chase on Atha Cliath and the 1996 Cheltenham Bumper on Wither Or Which. [6] He is the trainer of the 2005 Grand National winner Hedgehunter and the 2011 and 2013 Champion Hurdle winner Hurricane Fly. Mullins also trained Vautour in the 2016 Ryanair ...
Horse Racing Ireland (HRI; Irish: Rásaíocht Capaill na hÉireann) is the governing body of horse racing on the island of Ireland. It is based in the Curragh, County Kildare, next to the racecourse of that name. HRI was founded in 2001, succeeding the Irish Horseracing Authority, itself the 1994 successor to the Racing Board founded in 1945.
Vincent O'Brien. Michael Vincent O'Brien (9 April 1917 – 1 June 2009) was an Irish race horse trainer from Churchtown, County Cork, Ireland. In 2003 he was voted the greatest influence in horse racing history in a worldwide poll hosted by the Racing Post. In earlier Racing Post polls he was voted the best ever trainer of national hunt and of ...
A State-Sponsored Body is the name given in Ireland to a state-owned enterprise (a government-owned corporation), that is to say, a commercial business which is beneficially owned, either completely or majority, by the Irish Government. Each state-sponsored body has a sponsor Minister who acts as shareholder, either independently, or in ...
Apprenticing for Jim Bolger, Carberry earned his first win in August 1990 on Petronelli.He was also the jockey for racehorse owner Robert Ogden.Carberry learned his trade through hunting, show-jumping and point-to-pointing in Ireland and many view him as one of Ireland's leading jump jockeys along with Ruby Walsh, Barry Geraghty, Davy Russell and Andrew McNamara.
27 June 1979 (age 45) Youghal, County Cork, Ireland. Honours. Irish jump racing Champion Jockey (2011–12), (2012–13), (2017–2018) Significant horses. Weapon's Amnesty, War of Attrition, Solwhit, Forpadydeplasterer, Back In Front, Sir Des Champs, Lord Windermere, Tiger Roll. Davy Russell (born 27 June 1979) [1] is an Irish retired National ...
Launched on 15 April 1986, [1] the Racing Post is a daily national print and digital publisher specializing in the British horse racing industry and horse racing, greyhound racing and sports betting. The paper was founded by UAE (United Arab Emirates) Prime Minister and Sheikh of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum , a racehorse owner, and edited by Graham Rock, who was replaced by ...
Northern Ireland's largest pro-British party could back a new proposal to solve post-Brexit trading difficulties between the province and Britain as part of a long-term solution, Democratic ...