HUGE Gold Cup chance Il Est Francais – dubbed a ‘real superstar’ by his trainers – has been scratched from the £625,000 race. The King George runner-up, whose amazing ...

Fact Or File returned to action in the John Durkan Chase - one of the most important contests of the winter - and came out of it with his reputation soaring. Those closest to him have long thought ...

Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay and eight colleagues were fired in 2006 by the George W. Bush administration for what ...

Back with a bang in the John Durkan, where he defeated Galopin Des Champs, but downed by that same rival over Christmas and again at the Dublin Racing Festival. Serious questions about his ability ...

Two-time Gold Cup hero Galopin Des Champs was readily outpointed by his younger stablemate in the John Durkan Memorial Chase. Round two promises to be a more competitive affair, with Galopin Des ...

The book is at its most interesting when Durkan is quizzed about John Hume and what his predecessor had been trying to ...

Fact To File had won the battle of the Willie Mullins-trained stars in the John Durkan Chase at Punchestown five weeks ago when last year's Cheltenham Gold Cup winner was only third. But crucially ...

The one person who did read Trimble “reasonably well” was the SDLP leader at the time of the talks, John Hume. “He took a glass-half-full approach,” Durkan said of Hume at the Dublin ...

The John Durkan winner was beaten again by Galopin Des Champs over 3m in Saturday's Irish Gold Cup. Fact To File simply cannot get the trip as well as Galopin Des Champs and the 3m2f uphill finish ...