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UPDATED 9:16PM, MAR 16 2021 There was nothing unusual about Denise Sneezy Foster watching the Close Brothers Mares Hurdle on a couch in the sitting room of her County Meath home. She has done that for the last couple of years. What was unusual was the fact that she trained the winner and was uncorking a bottle of Taittinger afterwards. It has been a whirlwind week for 67-year-old Foster. She took charge of Cullentra House last Tuesday as Gordon Elliott began a six-month suspension for br...

Your one-stop shop for Cheltenham Festival news on Tuesday morning Market movers: Favourites all the rage Short-price favourites could be the order of the opening day, with Ladbrokes and Coral reporting Honeysuckle, Shishkin, Appreciate It, Concertista and Happygolucky as the five most included horses in multiples today. James Knight, Coral trader, said: "If those five win it will be a long walk home from my office tonight (well actually it will just involve opening a door, but still...)." Fiv...

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UPDATED 6:01PM, MAR 9 2021 The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) hearing into a video of Cheltenham Festival-winning amateur rider Rob James mounting a dead horse in April 2016 will take place on Wednesday. Just days after the image of trainer Gordon Elliott sitting on the ill-fated Morgan circulated on social media, former champion novice point-to-point rider James confirmed his identity in the separate video and issued an apology over the "inappropriate and disrespectful" ac...

6:45PM, MAR 9 2021 A Cheltenham Festival-bound jockey in Ireland has tested positive for Covid-19 but will have served his required self-isolation period in time to ride at next weeks meeting, provided he tests negative before travelling to the UK. A single rider among the more than 30 sampled in the second round of pre-Cheltenham testing returned a positive result for the virus, but the individual has no racing-related contacts, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board stated. The joc...

Monday We move a step closer to the Cheltenham Festival, which is now just eight days away, with competitive jumps meetings in Britain and Ireland. The potentially class horse could come in the 2m1f beginners chase at Leopardstown (4.00), in which the Joe and Marie Donnelly-owned Breaken bids to get off the mark over fences. The seven-year-old has not run since a fall in December 2019, but may prove hard to beat if back to the form of his maiden hurdle win earlier that year. Wetherby stag...

Gordon Elliott suffered a further blow on Tuesday night when yard sponsor eCOMM Merchant Solutions announced it had terminated its contract with the yard.

John Waters and Gemma ODohertys appeal against a refusal to permit them to challenge the constitutionality of laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been dismissed. They had appealed the High Court’s refusal to permit the two to bring their challenge and its award of costs of that hearing against them. In their judicial review proceedings against the State and the Minister for Health, with the Dail. Seanad and Ceann Comhairle as notice parties, the appellants had sought to h...

Updated / Tuesday, 2 Mar 2021 12:06 Gemma ODoherty and John Waters appealed the High Courts refusal to permit them to bring their challenge (File: RollingNews.ie) An appeal by John Waters and Gemma ODoherty against a refusal to permit them to challenge the constitutionality of laws introduced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been dismissed. They had appealed the High Courts refusal to permit them to bring their challenge and its award of costs of that hearing against them. In their ...

Gordon Elliott says he has let down the racing industry, his owners and his staff with an "indefensible moment of madness".