JP McManus turns down chance for Gold Cup hero Inothewayurthinkin to emulate Golden Miller and win two big prizes in same season
Only one horse – Golden Miller in 1934 – has ever won the Gold Cup and Aintree Grand National in the same season
Handicapper reckons Gold Cup hero Inthewayurthinkin has 15lbs in hand should he try to double up in Aintree Grand National
Friday’s wins take champion trainer’s tally for the week to 10, equalling his 2022 tally
Potential festival hotpot Dinoblue aiming to go one better than 2024 in Mares Chase
Energumene bidding to emulate Badsworth Boy as triple winner of two-mile renewal
Opening Supreme Novices Hurdle named in memory of the late jockey Michael O’Sullivan who won the race in 2023
The romance of the festival has been smothered and underdog stories have all but vanished
McManus has had 78 Cheltenham winners – far more than any other owner – but with his strongest-ever team set to compete next week, that number is likely to grow
Why would you care how many winners Willie Mullins or JP McManus add to their already huge total this week?
Durkan winner is favourite for the Ryanair but only has Galopin Des Champs in front of him in Gold Cup betting
State Man half-brother Soir De Garde hoping to be promoted from reserves and follow in family footsteps
Gold Cup runner-up ruled out of tilt at this Sunday’s Fleur De Lys Chase at Windsor
Darren Yates planning to leave racing at the end of the season after selling top novice hurdler.
School dropout from Co Meath has become an extraordinarily successful trainer, recovered from a self-inflicted scandal and built a ‘fascinating chemistry’ with his chief rival
Here is a resolution for 2025: let’s stop glorifying extraordinary wealth. All great wealth reveals is that someone can afford to pay more tax
Fact To File, Spillane’s Tower and Corbetts Cross all excelled as novices last term
Modern jump racing has become too hardnosed to allow feelgood stories such as Danoli, Limestone Lad and Solerina
Constitution Hill back in the frame to make return to action in Christmas Hurdle at Kempton
Willie Mullins star beats Spillane’s Tower by half a length with reigning dual-Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs in third
Grade One winners Inothewayurthinkin and Spillane’s Tower also set to ‘tog out’ for Sunday’s €150,000 Punchestown feature
Roundstone Real Estate understood to have secured financing from company owned by nephew of JP McManus
The auditors report for Tizzard Holdings states that the company made a loss for the year to the end of December 2023
Business had intended to gift building in Limerick city to State, but negotiations stalled due to council fear of how to fund it
Plus: The Ditch doing fine in a post-Paddy world; Fianna Fáil borrows from the DUP; and Brendan O’Carroll’s soft backing of Kamala Harris
Nursing home business counts John Magnier, Dermot Desmond and JP McManus among its backers
JP McManus charity sweepstakes will make local charities winners by linking them with horses in the Munster National Festival’s feature race at Limerick Racecourse
JP McManus-owned In Excelsis Deo bids to become first cross-channel trained Plate winner since 2008
Owner JP McManus: ‘He was a very special horse who gave us many great days of fun and enjoyment’
Coolmore boss John Magnier backs €1.25 million Curragh Classic staying at a mile and a half
Bypass of Limerick village critical to traffic flows at high profile golf tournament and an intrinisic element of larger N69 Foynes to Limerick TEN-T project
Former rugby star Jerry Flannery backs ex-Department of Finance secretary general John Moran ahead of ballot
Dublin offices of Davy linked to complex network of international finance and property investment and development groups
As a result of sales of businesses, a plethora of family investment vehicles have sprung up in Dublin around Fitzwilliam Square and its adjacent streets
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