Latest Racing News

Yellow Rosebud blooms to show Guineas claims

Mon, 14 May 12 08:20

TWO years ago Bethrah won the Irish 1,000 Guineas after landing Leopardstown's Derrinstown Stud Trial for the Curragh Classic, and that filly's trainer Dermot Weld will be hoping Yellow Rosebud will do likewise.

LEOPARDSTOWN: Light Heavy battles to brave Derrinstown win

Sun, 13 May 12 15:49

THE gutsy Light Heavy landed his third victory of the season when he stuck on bravely to deny the front-running Tower Rock for trainer Jim Bolger and jockey Kevin Manning.

Wrote to write his way into Derby picture

Sat, 12 May 12 15:04

AIDAN O’BRIEN has monopolised the Derrinstown Derby Trial in the last decade and Wrote could provide the Ballydoyle maestro with his eighth win in 11 years in Sunday’s feature.

Derby hope Akeed Mofeed not certain to run in Derrinstown

Wed, 09 May 12 17:05

AKEED MOFEED is not a definite runner in Sunday's Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial after trainer John Oxx said on Wednesday that the race might come too soon for his Classic hope.

Wrote heads for Derrinstown Derby Trial

Mon, 07 May 12 19:29

TRAINER Aidan O'Brien has nominated Breeders' Cup Juvenile Turf winner Wrote for Sunday's Derrinstown Stud Derby Trial, a race he won with subsequent Derby winners Galileo and High Chaparral.

LEOPARDSTOWN: Livingston fourth as Light wins Ballysax

Sun, 15 Apr 12 16:37

LIGHT HEAVY provided trainer Jim Bolger with a third successive win in the Ballysax Stakes as favourite and Investec Derby hope David Livingston failed to fire back in fourth.

LEOPARDSTOWN: Homecoming Queen causes upset

Sun, 15 Apr 12 16:10

HOMECOMING QUEEN caused an upset in the 1,000 Guineas trial at Leopardstown on Sunday, making every yard of the running before finding extra close home to deny hot favourite Fire Lily.

LEOPARDSTOWN: Furner's comfortable winner of trial

Sun, 15 Apr 12 14:51

THE betting suggested this was a two-horse race, and so it proved with the odds-on Furner's Green comfortably seeing off second favourite Akeed Wafi in the four-runner 2,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown

Steamer Seabass vies for National favouritism

Sat, 14 Apr 12 11:46

SEABASS was by far the most notable market mover on the morning of the John Smith's Grand National as the price of the Katie Walsh ridden nine-year-old, who has won his last seven races, collapsed.

Lightening Pearl to skip Guineas Trial on Sunday

Fri, 13 Apr 12 07:50

TRAINER Ger Lyons said on Friday that Cheveley Park Stakes winner Lightening Pearl would skip Sunday's 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown.

Lightening decision to be left late says Lyons

Thu, 12 Apr 12 07:52

A DECISION on Lightening Pearl, the Cheveley Park Stakes winner, making her reappearance in the 1,000 Guineas Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday will be delayed until Friday morning, according to her trainer Ger Lyons.

Parish Hall trial run dependent on ground conditions

Wed, 11 Apr 12 10:30

PARISH HALL, winner of the Dubai Dewhurst Stakes and a general 16-1 shot for the Qipco 2,000 Guineas, is among the entries for the Group 3 Leopardstown 2,000 Guineas Trial on Sunday, with his participation in the 1m event likely to depend on ground condi

LEOPARDSTOWN: Weld impressed by Princess Highway

Thu, 29 Mar 12 11:11

THE quality of some of the pedigrees on show in the opening fillies' maiden at Leopardstown' s opening meeting of the Flat season were impressive.

5,000 expected on first ever student night

Tue, 27 Mar 12 18:00

LEOPARDSTOWN is expecting a crowd in the region of 5,000 on Wednesday night as it stages its first ever student night with red-hot indie band The Original Rudeboys booked to play after racing.

JEWSON NOVICES' CHASE: Sir Des Champs all class

Thu, 15 Mar 12 13:35

SIR DES CHAMPS maintained his unbeaten record in impressive style, the six-year-old advertising his credentials as a star of the future with a faultless round of jumping through the misty gloom of Cheltenham's New Course.

Andrew Lynch expecting to return to saddle on Saturday

Mon, 05 Mar 12 17:31

ANDREW LYNCH, whose book of rides at next week's Cheltenham Festival includes defending champion chaser Sizing Europe, expects to back in action at the weekend after missing all but one of his rides at Leopardstown on Sunday.

Mullins opts against schooling at Leopardstown

Sun, 04 Mar 12 18:45

QUICK ground at Leopardstown on Sunday seriously curtailed the post racing action with all trainers - including Willie Mullins - who had intended schooling some of their Cheltenham-bound chasers, deciding to abandon the exercise.

No Dundalk prep for Supreme hope Steps To Freedom

Thu, 16 Feb 12 10:34

STEPS TO FREEDOM, a leading William Hill Supreme Novices' Hurdle hope, will not run in a planned Cheltenham Festival prep at Dundalk on Friday trainer Jessica Harrington said on Thursday.

Unaccompanied out of Champion Hurdle

Sun, 12 Feb 12 18:08

UNACCOMPANIED was on Sunday ruled out of the Stan James Champion Hurdle, for which she was as short as 16-1, with a view to bringing her back on the Flat later in the year.

LEOPARDSTOWN: Mullins strikes again with Quel Esprit

Sun, 12 Feb 12 15:39

QUEL ESPRIT gave trainer Willie Mullins an eighth Hennessy Gold Cup success with a swashbuckling front-running performance under Ruby Walsh.