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Here's something I wrote on who's more important: the sire or the dam?
Ciarán Ó Deoráin
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Ciarán Ó Deoráin
@ciaranodeorain
Labhair Gaeilge liomsa ar an @gaelgoer aip (If you’re into running, you can find me on Strava at strava.app.link/m55ij1oCsRb)
- I don’t think anything screams “I have a gambling problem” more than someone who bets on whether flights will be delayed
- Urban Sea, Sea The Stars, and Daryz Three generations of Arc winners
- The sire of Forever Young is Real Steel, a son of Deep Impact who was himself by Sunday Silence So in a way, things have come full circle since Sunday Silence won the 1989 Breeders' Cup Classic
- 16 months later.... Can now fairly say that this was one of the best beginners chases run in living memory
That might have been the deepest beginners chase I've ever seen - The year is 2037 23yo Envoi Allen has won his 10th Down Royal Champion Chase
- Best trainer in the business on a pound for pound basis, you can’t tell me otherwise
- 11 runners in the Supreme, 7 have now run since 3 winners (Salvator Mundi G1, Irancy G2, Tutti Quanti Mickey Mouse) 2 2nds (Romeo Coolio G1, Karniquet G1) 2 3rds (Karbau G1, Funiculi Funicula G1)Supreme form looks good, 4 runners from it have now placed in G1s at Aintree
- Wonder what odds you would have got for Ethical Diamond to win the 2025 Breeders' Cup Turf after this?That's more like it! ✊ Ethical Diamond gets off the mark over hurdles in the style of a very useful performer. Could he be one for the County Hurdle? @WillieMullinsNH | @PTownend
00:00 - He’ll always have his haters but Auguste Rodin is only the second Derby winner this century after New Approach to have won a G1 as a 2yo, the Derby, and two all-age G1s as a 3yo
- Coolmore fees for the year to come versus the year gone by
- 12 G1s now for Galopin Does he get to Kauto’s 16?
- They say history doesn’t repeat itself but it does often rhyme…. May 3rd, 2014 - 2,000 Guineas 1st: Night Of Thunder 2nd: Kingman 3rd: Australia June 23rd, 2025 - Champion Sire Table 1st: Night Of Thunder 2nd: Kingman 3rd: Australia
