AS the much anticipated 2022 Punchestown Festival approaches the iconic racecourse has announced another Kildare icon, Ruby Walsh, as Punchestown Brand Champion…
Acclaimed Kildare jockey Ruby Walsh has been confirmed for the Punchestown 2022 team. The racecourse said that Walsh will join the latest iteration of the festi.
As the much anticipated 2022 Punchestown Festival approaches the racecourse today announced Ruby Walsh as Punchestown Brand Champion in a move that will see the…
UPDATED 9:43AM, APR 29 2021
Just when the patient was beginning to flatline, British jump racing’s ECG monitor flickered back into life thanks to a dominant and determined front-running performance from Clan Des Obeaux in the Ladbrokes Punchestown Gold Cup.
At the end of a chastening campaign that has seen its protagonists humbled at both Cheltenham and Aintree, Paul Nicholls summoned the bulldog spirit for which he is renowned by pitching his dual King George VI Chase hero into the lion s den. Fortune favoured the brave, not least because in Sam Twiston-Davies he had an accomplice willing to embrace such a valiant policy.