I doubt anyone in the Moloney family or anyone in any way attached to Thurles racecourse would ever have thought the eyes of the racing world would turn solely on them on a Saturday afternoon in mid-March, but they will.

Jockeys’ weights will increase by 2lb from Friday, with all racecourse saunas closed.

Kennedy was hurt in a race that came just half an hour after winning the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup on Delta Work.

Jack Kennedy suffered a broken leg in a fall at Leopardstown on Sunday – in a race that came just half an hour after winning the Paddy Power Irish Gold Cup on Delta Work.

Neither jockey requested for their ‘B’ Sample to be analysed and both entered guilty pleas.

David Mullins was reported to be “alert, speaking and moving all limbs” after being airlifted to Cork University hospital following a heavy fall at Thurles today.

Why, oh why, has the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board felt it necessary to tamper with the rules

We’re very light on runners this weekend but that’s not unusual for us so close to Cheltenham. Being just seven or eight days out from the Festival, we mightn’t be too busy at the tracks, but we’ll be flat out on the gallops.

It has become an all-too-familiar refrain now but we remain in some sort of limbo until we get a serious drop of rain. It’s good, good-to-yielding ground, there are people mowing lawns, midges flying around – there’s nothing Januaryesque about it, writes Ruby Walsh.

Horse Racing authorities have been working hard to provide support structures for established jockeys and set up a pathway for the next generation of young Irish talent.

If ever there was a good case for televising stewards’ inquiries, it can surely be made following that Paul Townend debacle at Punchestown on Tuesday, writes Pat Keane.

The abandonments are "due to an adverse weather forecast and hazardous driving conditions".