RUBY WALSH ADDED another milestone to his decorated career as a jockey yesterday when he travelled to Far Hills in New Jersey.
Stepping in for the injured Jack Doyle, Walsh rode the Cyril Murphy-trained Rawnaq to victory over two and a half miles in the US Grand National — a $350,000 race which is the most lucrative over jumps in North America.
The result means Walsh has now won Grand Nationals in seven different countries, having previously done so in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales, Australia and Japan.
After flying across the Atlantic for the ride, Walsh is due to be back on Irish soil this afternoon, when he’s scheduled for four rides at Cork Racecourse in Mallow.
“It went really well,” Walsh said. “Very, very lucky for me, unfortunately his usual jockey Jack Doyle got a very bad fall in Belmont a few weeks ago and got some pretty nasty injuries so he wasn’t able to ride him today. There was a spare ride for me and I’m very appreciative of the phone-call to come and ride him.”
He added: “I didn’t need to be asked twice. I thought he was a really good ride, I thought he was the best steeplechase horse in America. It’s a huge purse and I don’t know of any steeplechase on anywhere else in the world worth this money this weekend, so when I got the opportunity to ride him I was always going to come.”
Wife? 21? Really?
The wags are getting them locked down young
When I was 21 I was blowing shit up in the microwave ala Ian Henderson in a student house
Anthony Martial is married with two kids at 19. She knew…
Coutinho been married since he was 19 too I believe.
Check her out, she’s an absolute lasher. I’d be wifing that at 21 as well.
Image of Bale
Let’s hope he will be as good as Bale !
They say supposedly there’s around 7 people in the world who look exactly like you..
Yip. Lucky enough that mine is Ryan Gosling
:D
He’d make more money as an impersonator
Or even league one. Being on the books at a top prem club then going to league two is a massive drop down
And probably offers us an insight into the actual level that this fella is at. He’s not going to league 2 for any other reason than he didn’t have any other options. He might rebound in a few years but I’ve a feeling that looking like Bale will be as close to a top footballer that he may ever be and I mean that as no slight against him, the odds of making it at the top level of football are in the high millions.
Jamie Vardy. ….
Surely he could have been picked up by a championship club rather than having to drop down to league 2
Why would that be?
You would think that. But here we are.
And york city are in last place
Plot twist, Kenny is actually playing for Madrid and Bale is off to the metropolis of York.
So it was Kenny who got Wales to euro 2016!!!
Give him time, Alan Judge was in a similar situation when Blackburn. Now PL teams are interested in signing him.
Hope ha can play like bale