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Curragh preview: McCreery hoping ground eases for Lustown Baba
Tue 1 Jun 2021
Willie McCreery is praying for rain for
Lustown Baba ahead of her bid for a third Curragh success in Wednesdayâs Qatar Racing And Equestrian Club Ballyogan Stakes.
The four-year-old bolted up in handicap company at the track in October before following up in the Listed Testimonial Stakes just four days later.
Lustown Baba ran her best race of the season so far when a narrow second to Snapraeterea in the Owenstown Stud Stakes at Naas on her latest outing and her trainer is hopeful of another bold showing â provided the ground is suitable.
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Fair warning folks! It has been said that the Irish are incapable of making a long story short. This feature is proof positive that there is some validity to those words. While Butte residents will once again not have their traditional St. Patrickâs Day parade and many will not be heading to their favorite tavern, there is still much to celebrate and more importantly, to honor and be thankful for. Our Irish ancestors took a chance and left their homeland and opened a new chapter in the mining town that lay below the Continental Divide. The story below focuses on the immigrants of the Beara Peninsula and highlights their innocence, courage, perseverance, devilry, and sometimes pure stubbornness. More than 100 years have passed, but the Beara connection remains steadfast. Their descendants hold tight to their stories, their traditions. It may seem somewhat redundant to state, but it doesnât make it any less true â âIf it werenât for them, we would not be
Whyte s to offer Irish & International art
Paul Henry RHA, Spring in Wicklow, c. 1926-8. 21 by 20 in. (53.3 by 50.8 cm). Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000.
DUBLIN
.-Whytes spring auction of Irish & International art promises to deliver another exciting opportunity for collectors to acquire rare artworks of outstanding quality and enduring value. On Monday 22 March 2021 153 lots of Irish & International art will be offered for auction.
One of top lots by value is a striking oil (illustrated above) titled Waiting for the Ferry, Low Tide, 1946 by Jack B. Yeats (lot 29, estimate 100,000-150,000). Typical of his later work, in both execution and palette, it depicts a lone figure standing at the waters edge. Behind her a steep bank of cliffs rises upwards creating a striking backdrop. The work has an interesting provenance, purchased from Leo Smith by Helen Hooker OMalley and then gifted to the actor Liam Redmond, with whom Hooker had founded the Dublin Players Theatre in 1