As tributes pour in for Walter Swinburn following his death at the age of 55, the riding great will always be remembered for his partnership with the mighty Shergar, who completed the Epsom and Curragh Derby double in 1981.

Dermot Weld reached a significant milestone in his long and illustrious career in Naas last night when a double, with Discipline in the listed Naas Oaks Trial and Sea Swift in the fillies maiden, saw him reach the 4,000 winner mark.

Ryan Moore set a new best last season when becoming the first rider since the war to record nine winners during Royal Ascot and has high hopes of another successful week.

It has gone down in racing history as one of the most unlikely yet successful comebacks, and it all started at Tipperary.

 

Ryan Moore roared into the history books on the penultimate day of Royal Ascot as he became the first jockey since the war to ride nine winners at the showpiece meeting.

Emotion overflowed for Frankie Dettori as he celebrated another magnificent milestone by clinching a 50th Royal Ascot winner with a last-gasp success aboard Osaila in the Sandringham Handicap.

It might be exciting that first Christmas but after a year or two, buying a present for the man in your life can become an annual nightmare. Richard Fitzpatrick offers up his wisdom on the dos and don’ts of Christmas present buying for men

Former champion Irish apprentice Tadhg O’Shea has firmly cemented himself as part of the racing scene in Dubai and is looking forward to his association with trainer Ernst Oertel paying further dividends at the showpiece World Cup meeting this weekend.

Tony McCoy once summed up the essential ingredient in the make-up of a champion jump jockey with searing simplicity.

Jamie Piggott, son of the legendary Lester, will try to follow in his father’s footsteps when he has his first ride in public at Killarney today.

A real life “guardian angel” from the “Gate of Heaven” saved Jacqueline Kennedy from drowning when she holidayed in Co Waterford in 1967.

Henry Richard Amherst Cecil was one of the most popular and greatest racehorse trainers of this, or any other, era.

On a night when the legendary Lester Piggott cut the ribbon to officially open the new entrance building at Tipperary racecourse, it was Robert Tyner’s Young Finnegan who stole the show in the Healy Partners’ Architects Maiden Hurdle.

Dick Francis mined his RAF and riding careers to author 44 crime novels. The first was published 50 years ago, says Declan Burke

The once-powerful association of Henry Cecil and the Wildenstein family is revived this weekend as Andromeda Galaxy makes her debut for the trainer at Gowran Park on Sunday.

Sky Lantern, confidently handled by Richard Hughes, oozed class as she proved a facile winner of the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes at the Curragh yesterday.

Dreams of a first Triple Crown hero since 1970 are very much alive after Camelot routed the field in the Investec Derby at Epsom.

Camelot set up the mouthwatering prospect of a Triple Crown bid with a superb victory in the Investec Derby at Epsom.

Cherished racehorse and stallion Royal Academy died today at the age of 25.

On an evening when Barry Geraghty completed a superb treble in the opening three races, it was Conor O’Dwyer who earned the plaudits when guiding the Jessica Harrington trained Bullock Harbour to a convincing victory in the ‘Legends’ race, the Foleys Antiques Supple Arkle Statue Maiden.

THE classy Hooray should prove tough to beat in the listed Fairy Bridge Stakes in Tipperary tonight.

FORMER owner Tony Shead paid tribute to Barry Hills after the legendary Lambourn trainer announced his retirement from the sport.

Winning the Derby continues to elude Her Majesty so will her trip to the National Stud ensure a winner, asks Margaret Carragher

CHARLIE SWAN was crowned king of the legends after making all the running on Miami Gator to win the Fudge And Smudge Leger Legends Classified Stakes at Doncaster yesterday.

Richard Hughes capped a truly glorious five days by finishing the Goodwood meeting with a record-breaking total of nine winners.

ASTONISHING seems the most appropriate word to describe the success of the Galway Festival this week.

Henrietta Knight described Tony McCoy’s victory in the John Smith’s Grand National as the “best result”.

The funeral of jockey turned best-selling author Dick Francis will take place today.

Dick Francis, the champion jockey turned best-selling thriller writer, has died at the age of 89, his family said today.

An exhibition of the life and times of Vincent O’Brien will be on display at the Curragh this weekend.

THE debate raged on in Turnberry bars and in national phone-ins long after Tom Watson had fled the scene of his flirtation with history.

THOUGH brought together by the coincidental timing of their deaths, Vincent O’Brien and Danny La Rue have more in common than is immediately apparent.

Legendary jockey Lester Piggott last night led the tributes to the training genius of Vincent O’Brien, who died on Monday morning at the age of 92.

RIGHT then, hands up anyone else who is seriously underwhelmed by the prospect of the forthcoming flat season.

THE self-assessment tax system for the self-employed has been criticised after it emerged an audit of 47 barristers in 2007 yielded e838,000 in undeclared tax, interest and penalties.

IT WAS as if any mention of economic doom and gloom was banned at the Curragh yesterday.

IT’S like old times back on the racing gallops of Co Tipperary. A jockey with the name of Piggott is working astride magnificent thoroughbreds.