|
|
 Montjue / Finsceal Beo Colt A son of ‘Montjeu,’ out of ‘Finsceal Beo,’ (Latter Irish translation “Living Legend”) is heading to Ballydoyle, Fethard, Tipperary, having sold for €2.85 million to Michael Vincent (MV) Magnier, son of Coolmore supremo John Magnier.
Montjeu, who won the French and Irish Derby’s as well as the Prix de L’Arc de Triomphe and the King George, was a high-class sire for Coolmore, who died last year aged 16. During his lifetime he sired three Derby winners as well as the Champion Hurdler ‘Hurricane Run.’
The 2006 European Champion filly Finsceal Beo is one of only two horses ever to win both the Irish 1,000 Guineas and the English 1,000 Guineas. She missed her chance at a “Triple” when she ran second in France to Darjina in the 2007 Poule d’Essai des Pouliches at Longchamp Racecourse.
While not quite a Goffs Orby sale record, Montjeu is the most expensive yearling of the past 25 years, outshining the previous €2.4 million paid for Jane Eyre in 2007, latter which until now was the second most expensive horse ever to be sold at an Irish auction. The record of €3.1 million still stands unsurpassed by Authaal, the Irish St Leger winner; latter a Shergar colt purchased in 1984.
An opening bid of €1 million for the colt were initially sought, however the auctioneer had to revert to €100,000 to get proceedings underway. Bids quickly bounced back and forth in quick succession, eventually silenced by the winning bid of €2.85 million.
The Al-Eile Stud bred colt is the third foal out of Finsceal Beo and his sale remains the highest price for any yearling in the northern hemisphere for this year.
 The Tipperary County Board have announced new hurling managers at Under-21 and Minor levels.
The Under-21 side will now be managed by TJ Connolly of Cashel King Cormacs while the Minors will be managed by Liam Cahill, Ballingarry.
The news comes after the board confirmed earlier that Ken Hogan and William Maher had stepped down as Under-21 and Minor hurling managers.
Speculation about Ken Hogan’s managerial future is now likely to intensify. The Lorrha-Dorrha clubman has been linked with the vacant Limerick and Offaly jobs in recent weeks, following the departure of John Allen and Ollie Baker.
Hogan had completed four years as Under 21 manager and led Tipperary to Munster and All-Ireland titles in 2010, while Maher led the county to Munster and All Ireland Minor hurling titles in 2012.
The new appointments were confirmed at last night’s County Board meeting in Semple Stadium, Thurles, Co Tipperary.
 North Tipperary’s Greg Broderick and the five-year-old mare Arraghbeg Clover produced a stunning victory for the Irish Sport Horse Studbook at the World Breeding Championships at Lanaken in Belgium.
Despite some poor weather conditions earlier this week, the event attracted an enormous crowd of enthusiastic breeders, producers, riders, trainers, owners and experts from around the world, all who thoroughly enjoyed their annual reunion.
These Championships have long been recognised as the perfect place to share ideas, and compare the merit, development, innovation and success of the studbooks, old and new, which produce the latest stars of the modern day sport of Jumping.
The gold-medal-winning partnership of Greg Broderick and the ISH Arraghbeg Clover were eighteenth to go, and they set an unmerciful target when breaking the beam in 39.72 seconds after a scorching round in which the Tipperary rider took every risk.
This mare, by Captain Clover who is a son of the legendary Irish stallion Clover Hill, has a mix of breeding that combines the toughness of the Irish horse with the quality of the thoroughbred, Bonnie Prince, on his dam’s side and with the Dutch influence of Animo.
Greg, who celebrated his 28th birthday yesterday, is a prolific producer of good Irish horses and Arraghbeg Clover has earned €19,000 in prize money in the last few months having won the Irish Sport Horse Studbook 5-Year-Old League and the Breeders Classic, while also finishing third in her age category at Dublin Horse Show in August.
Arraghbeg Clover – Captain Clover x Bonnie Prince – is jointly-owned by her rider and Declan Orpen.
From a start list of some 242 horses, 63 qualified for yesterday’s 5-Year-Old final in which 25 went through to a jump-off.
I t is with sincere regret we learn of the untimely death of Mr Tommy Kelly, uncle to two of Tipperary’s hurling stars, and the former who lost his life in a suspected ‘hit and run’ incident in Australia on Sunday last.
Mr Kelly was a father of four and worked as a successful Physical Education teacher and athletics coach.
A teacher many years ago at St.Leo’s in Box Hill, Tom spent his time away from coaching at schools such as Xavier College, Genazzano College and Whitefriars amongst others.
A Life Member of both Box Hill and Doncaster Athletics Clubs, Mr Kelly had been an integral part of the Victorian athletics community across many decades. From hurdlers to marathoners, for generations Tommy had been developing Victorian athletes from little athletics through to the Olympics.
His most recent international success story was London Olympian David McNeill, whom he developed from a schoolboy to a Zatopek & NCAA Champion and world championship and Olympic representative over 5000m and 10,000m.
Mr Kelly, aged 82, was uncle of Tipperary hurling stars Eoin Kelly and Paul Kelly and was found dead by Victoria Police on Sunday, on Birmingham Road, Melbourne. Mr Kelly is understood to have been struck by a vehicle while seeking directions to the home of another athlete.
A regular visitor to Mullinahone and his native Tipperary, especially for All-Ireland hurling finals, Mr Kelly had emigrated to Australia originally in 1956, some 57 years ago.
The Kelly family in Mullinahone learned of the incident from one of their late brother’s Australian daughters. Tommy’s funeral will be held in the coming days.
Go ndéana Dia trócaire ar a anam dílis.
The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) intend to extend their new Hawk-Eye Technology to Semple Stadium in the not too distant future.
Despite the major error which incorrectly adjudged Barry Nash’s point as having gone wide in Limerick’s All-Ireland MHC semi-final defeat to Galway last month, Mr Páraic Duffy Director General of the Association, has wholeheartedly backed this new technology and believes it will serve the GAA well into the future.
Mr Duffy forecasts that it will be introduced to Semple Stadium here in Thurles by possibly 2014, because Thurles is predominantly a hurling venue.
Hawk-Eye’s value was very obvious in the recent All-Ireland minor SFC semi-final, when it correctly overruled an umpire’s decision that a shot had gone wide.
|
Support Us Help keep Thurles.info online by donating below. Thank you.
Total Donated 2026: €290.00
Thank You!
Daily Thurles Mass Livestream
|
Recent Comments