Field of dreams

The formidable Patrickswell husband and wife team of Michael and Marie Field have prepared a powerful team to contest the Derby and Champion Stakes at Powerstown Park, Clonmel next week. They spoke to Diarmuid O’Flynn about their training regime- and how they struck up their partnership 47 years ago.

YE KNOW that film, The Man Who Went Up A Hill And Came Down A Mountain?

It’s that time of the year again, the great annual National Coursing Meeting in Clonmel around the corner, you go to meet someone who is lucky enough to have a few dogs qualified, looking for a coursing story, and you come away with a love story.