Ballydoyle ace ready to Rip
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Johnny Murtagh retains full confidence in Rip Van Winkle on the eve of his Breeders' Cup Classic bid on Saturday night.
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Jockeying for position
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
... powerful operations in Irish racing behind them, this year’s front runners were Johnny Murtagh, Ballydoyle’s principal jockey, and Pat Smullen, who rides for Moyglare.Both jockeys had a tally of winners in the 80s. To have 50 winners in a season is excellent, to be pushing 90 is phenomenal. Without the most powerful trainers in the business, Dermot Weld and Aidan O’Brien, these figures would...
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Murtagh crowned champion
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
... riding in Ireland is very special. It’s a big privelege to finish top of the pile,” said the Ballydoyle jockey.Meanwhile, Thousand Stars can keep up Willie Mullins’ good run of form in one of today’s most valuable contests at Fairyhouse.With Ruby Walsh and Paul Townend riding at Newbury, the champion trainer has chalked in Katie Walsh for the ride on Thousand Stars for the Bar One Handicap...
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Cartier Awards: Sea The Stars cleans up
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
... horse to win a Cartier Award four years in succession when he picked up the Stayers' title. The Ballydoyle/Coolmore team rarely go home empty-handed from the awards and though they may have been thwarted by Sea The Stars with their three-year-old colts and Yeats is now honourably retired, it bodes well for the outfit in 2010 that St Nicholas Abbey, the highly impressive Racing Post Trophy...
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Sea can turn tide for Carberry
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... of Europe’s juvenile scene this season with a team that includes Johnny Murtagh’s mount Don Carlos.Ballydoyle also run Mikhail Glinka (Séamus Heffernan) and Banyan Tree (Colm O’Donoghue) in a nine-runner field that contains just two French-trained horses.Racing at Cork tomorrow is dependent on a 7.30 inspection tomorrow morning due to the weekend’s weather forecast.If it does go ahead, the...
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Murtagh impressed by Lillie
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Top jockey Johnny Murtagh believes Lillie Langtry is the best of the Ballydoyle two-year-old fillies.
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Horse racing: Johnny Murtagh has confident in Lillie Langtry for Breeders’ Cup
icWales (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
JOHNNY MURTAGH believes Lillie Langtry is the best of the Ballydoyle two-year-old fillies as she bids to justify favouritism in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies’ Turf at Santa Anita tonight.
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Jan's the man for Aidan O'Brien
The Daily Record (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
AIDAN O'Brien's Jan Vermeer made every yard of the running to provide Ballydoyle with yet another juvenile Group One victory in the Criterium International at Saint-Cloud.
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O'Brien's Jan Vermeer in frame for Derby after masterly show
The Independent (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Another day, another Ballydoyle colt gallops into a Classic market. Yesterday was the turn of Jan Vermeer, who gave Aidan O'Brien his third juvenile Group One prize in as many weekends with a comprehensive four-length success in the Critérium International at Saint-Cloud. The colt is now second-favourite for the Derby, behind stablemate St Nicholas Abbey, winner of the Racing Post Trophy....
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Rip Van Winkle over foot problems as he prepares for Breeders' Cup Classic bid
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• Trainer says colt's foot problems are behind him • Ballydoyle handler keen on Lillie Langtry's chances The most celebrated four feet in southern California came through their first experience of the Pro-Ride racing surface here yesterday, as Rip Van Winkle, the favourite for the $5m Breeders' Cup Classic on Saturday, led Aidan O'Brien's powerful team in a circuit of the track. There...
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Cup joy for Marathon Man
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
... and they were closing rapidly on the inside.Final FurlongWith a furlong to go it looked like the Ballydoyle colt might score cosily but Cloudy's Knight battled on really gamely and only just failed in a desperate finish. Mastery stayed on at one pace for third.Eddie Ahern was soon sending out distress signals on Father Time, who trailed home well beaten.It was O'Brien's first Breeders' Cup...
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Zenyatta restores home pride
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
... struggled well down the field on a day which contained more than its share of frustration for the Ballydoyle camp.A Breeders’ Cup that opened so perfectly with Man Of Iron’s thrilling Marathon success on Friday dissolved on Saturday when the tone was set by Viscount Nelson falling out of the stalls in the Juvenile Turf and immediately losing his chance.Things picked up slightly for the Irish...
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Zenyatta Peerless
The Daily Donkey (Free subscription) | 08/11/2009
... breaking blood vessels. European winners, Goldikova and Conduit both ran on this drug, but the Ballydoyle representatives in particular Rip van Winkle and Mastercraftsman did not.Dare I say it, its like trying to take on Usain Bolt who’s on steroids legally and you can’t take them………..makes no sense to me, other than make the horses not on drugs - massive lay material. Backers of Catch Me...
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Murtagh ready to let Rip in Breeders' Cup
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The Ballydoyle star has stayed loyal to the Sussex Stakes and QEII winner throughout the summer despite his on-going foot problems and believes his partner's guts and determination will reap the ultimate reward under the Californian sunshine.Trainer Aidan O'Brien has said a similar performance to those which Rip Van Winkle produced at Ascot or Goodwood will be good enough to see him home on...
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O'Brien off and running with Man Of Iron
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
... on Man Of Iron and they closed rapidly on the inside.With a furlong to go it looked like the Ballydoyle colt might score cosily but Cloudy's Knight battled on gamely and only just failed in a desperate finish.O'Brien's Lillie Langtry went off a hot favourite for the Juvenile Fillies Turf, but she was well beaten as Tapitsfly took the spoils.The Ballydoyle filly was settled in seventh...