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St Mark's Basilica edged out Tarnawa and Poetic Flare to come out on top in an enthralling Irish Champion Stakes.

Point Nepean (Image: @NavanRacecourse Twitter) Joseph O'Brien will attempt to win Tuesday's Listed Lenebane Stakes at Ireland's Rosscommon Racecourse with yet another horse owned by Australian interests. O'Brien has won the past two editions of the Lenebane with the OTI Racing-owned Downdraft in 2019 and the Lloyd Williams-owned Pondus, who defeated OTI's Jessica Harrington-trained mare Camphor last year. O'Brien and Williams, who have combined to win two Melbourne Cups, have representation again in the Lenebane on Tuesday with the aggressively placed Point Nepean. Point Nepea...

You know it’s June when a Sir Mark Prescott three-year-old with a stack of imminent entries gets on a roll over middle-distances from a basement mark.

Curragh preview: McCreery hoping ground eases for Lustown Baba Tue 1 Jun 2021 Willie McCreery is praying for rain for Lustown Baba ahead of her bid for a third Curragh success in Wednesday’s Qatar Racing And Equestrian Club Ballyogan Stakes. The four-year-old bolted up in handicap company at the track in October before following up in the Listed Testimonial Stakes just four days later. Lustown Baba ran her best race of the season so far when a narrow second to Snapraeterea in the Owenstown Stud Stakes at Naas on her latest outing and her trainer is hopeful of another bold showing –...

NOTE: Fair warning folks! It has been said that the Irish are incapable of making a long story short. This feature is proof positive that there is some validity to those words. While Butte residents will once again not have their traditional St. Patrick’s Day parade and many will not be heading to their favorite tavern, there is still much to celebrate and more importantly, to honor and be thankful for. Our Irish ancestors took a chance and left their homeland and opened a new chapter in the mining town that lay below the Continental Divide. The story below focuses on the immigrants of t...