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Posted on April 28, 2019April 27, 2019

Cobra 18 is dead, but his legacy (and remaining semen) lives on

Obviously this kind of thing is totally mundane for The Irish Field, but I did find the opening line of this story (paywalled, so see photo) quite, um, arresting. And…

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Posted on April 14, 2019

A poem for Palm Sunday – “The Donkey”, G K Chesterton

I find Chesterton a somewhat mixed bag , and that applies to his poetry also, but this has always moved me deeply, and is all the more effective for concealing…

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Posted on November 30, 2018November 30, 2018

Could horse racing survive without betting?

In the current Irish Field, a thought provoking piece interviewing Noel Hayes and Darren McGrath, founders of Sunday, ” a three-tiered process to bring people on a journey to get…

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