ONLOOKERS feared the worst for Jim Culloty when his respectable start to training degenerated sickeningly into a winnerless nightmare. “Another top jockey turned bad trainer,” they snarled as his fledgling operation nosedived. They were wrong, very wrong.

BRYAN COOPER is zipping up his boots and going back to his roots this week. Holiday destination, punting haven, Killarney – which starts its four-day festival today – represents different things to different people, but is as good as home to the 17-year-old jockey.

In May 2011, The Queen came to Ireland. During her stay she indulged her love of horses with a visit the Irish National Stud.

"The scenes that followed were of dazed and confused men. Owner-breeder Sean Murphy, the Note The Link syndicate leader James O’Sullivan and trainer James Motherway were in disbelief."

Tributes pour in after death at 89 of novelist and Devon Loch jockey Dick Francis. FRIENDS and family of Dick Francis yesterday celebrated the life of “an extraordinary man” after the legendary jockey and best-selling novelist died at the age of 89.