Brian O'Connor

Brian O'Connor

Racing Correspondent

Brian O'Connor is the racing correspondent of The Irish Times. He also writes the Tipping Point column.

Thurles racecourse to remain open until next March as HRI take on operational responsibility

Track will fulfill its remaining 11 fixtures after deal struck with the owners on Tipperary track

Marois hero Diego Velazquez has $1.25m Keeneland Mile next on his agenda

Promising claimer Alex Harvey bids to continue successful momentum at Bellewstown

Japanese star Shin Emperor set for another crack at Irish Champion Stakes success

Interim racecourse chief executive Vicki Donlon to leave Leopardstown after Irish Champions Festival

Jockey-title battle goes to Bellewstown where Colin Keane has six chances to narrow gap

Dylan Browne McMonagle leads reigning champion by 67 winners to 63

They said it can’t be done, but Aidan O’Brien is on course to beat his own world record for Group One wins

Ireland’s champion trainer already on 15 top-flight victories for the season

Gstaad has to settle for second behind Venetian Sun in Deauville’s Prix Morny

Wayne Lordan continues good weekend with Goodwood victory on Precise

Willie Mullins hoping it’s second time lucky in the Ebor for Hipop De Loire

Aidan O’Brien targeting Deauville Group One double with Gstaad and Bedtime Story

Wayne Lordan eyeing up Group Two Curragh double

Cross-channel challenger Miss Attitude could prove best in Sunday’s Naas feature

Exciting juvenile Lady Iman leads powerful Irish team into York’s Nunthorpe Stakes

Trainer Ger Lyons’s star bids to become first two-year-old winner of prestigious sprint in 18 years

Minnie Hauk gives impression of even better to come after Yorkshire Oaks romp

Filly gives Aidan O’Brien a record-equalling ninth success in Day Two Ebor festival feature

Minnie Hauk short odds to add name to stellar Yorkshire Oaks roll of honour

Colin Keane bids to take advantage of Dylan Browne McMonagle’s suspension in race for jockeys’ title

Ombudsman eventually sweeps to York glory after another 150-1 pacemaker threatens upset

Dual Derby winner Lambourn can finish only fifth in Great Voltigeur Stakes on frustrating day for Aidan O’Brien

Lambourn returns to action in York’s Great Voltigeur, with St Leger looming over horizon

Godolphin and Coolmore shape up for another Acomb Stakes clash on day one of Ebor festival

Top-quality International line-up a timely morale boost for British racing

Aidan O’Brien aiming for record-extending win as Delacroix bids to back up Eclipse success

Jockeys’ body says any new watering system for Thurles not anticipated until 2026

Irish Jockeys Association expected racing to go ahead at Thurles this autumn

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