Tag: Champion

Josh Morris - retiring class of 2021. #Shorts

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Put The Kettle On may have been a late absentee, but what a finish to the 2021 Gowran Park Champion Chase as Royal Rendezvous strikes under Danny Mullins.

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Drama in the parade ring as Oisin Murphy is thrown from his mount before the opener at Salisbury and is lucky to avoid serious injury, just days before he partners Chrono Genesis in the Arc de Triomphe at ParisLongchamp. His horse was thankfully abso...

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St Mark's Basilica wins the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown, overcoming two fabulous rivals in Tarnawa and Poetic Flare in the autumn showpiece.

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St Mark's Basilica captures the Win And You're In Irish Champion Stakes to secure his spot in the Longines Breeders' Cup Turf this November at Del Mar.

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No better man to talk us through the intricacies of riding in the Irish Champion Stakes at Leopardstown than Mick Kinane, winner of the Irish late-season showpiece on a record seven occasions. Donn McClean spoke to him ahead of the 2021 renewal and i...

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Azamour storms to victory in the 2004 Baileys Irish Champion Stakes. King George winner Doyen had been sent off the odds-on favourite but fades badly in the run for home.

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High Chaparral clinches victory in a thrilling Ireland the Food Island Champion Stakes at Leopardstown, a fifth success in the race for jockey Mick Kinane.

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Remember the days when the pacemakers used to go off miles in front? A fascinating tactical battle here for the 2002 Irish Champion Stakes as Grandera denies Hawk Wing in the very last strides after Ballydoyle's Sholokhov set fearsome fractions from ...

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The Irish Champion Stakes of 2,000 involved a pulsating head-bobbing finish, typical of the Iron Horse, Giant's Causeway. He eyeballed Best Of The Bests and there was only going to be one winner.

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Widely acclaimed to be one of the most thrilling thoroughbred races ever run, the Irish Champion Stakes featured the two middle-distance arch rivals of that season, Galileo and Fantastic Light. Swinging off the sharp home turn at Leopardstown the two...

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Sea The Stars cruises past the likes of Mastercraftsman and Fame And Glory to claim his fifth Group 1 of the 2009 flat season.

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