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INSIDE RIGHT: Save the fashion shows for the catwalks
AFTER ENJOYING the week-long feast of horse racing that is the Galway Festival, 'Inside Right' feels the need to have a rant about something that really gets under the skin regarding television coverage of the sport of kings - namely fashion. When a big race meeting is on yours truly wants to see man and horse in perfect symmetry moving gracefully around the track, not frocks, feathers and high heels jaunting playfully around the periphery of the course.
The season ends on a high for Prunella
THE HORSE racing season, which has just come to a close with the recent Punchestown Festival, has ended on a high for one Co. Wicklow trainer.
Sport and family life going hand in hand
YOU MAY or may not have noticed that 'Inside Right' has been missing from these pages for the past couple of weeks, on a sabbatical of sorts.
O'Hagans on a winner
TWO BROTHERS teamed up to score a notable win at a point-to-point race meeting at the weekend. At Bennetsbridge on Saturday, John O'Hagan was the jockey that rode to victory on Lasquini du Moulin, a horse owned and trained by his older brother Declan.
Can the public be trusted to pick the greatest?
THERE WAS no boogying the night away or joining drunken party revellers for yours truly on New Year's Eve as they kicked another year into touch and threw in the ball for what hopefully will be a more pallatable 2010.
Great to see Matt back in winners' enclosure
GOOD NEWS stories are all too rare in these dour, depression-filled times so when we hear tales of a happy nature we should treasure them.
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