Osblog 5 Somebody spotted the Osblog and commented “you must have nothing to do” which proves you just can’t win. I should give a moment by moment report of how the season has exploded into, literally, life. Well done to the team here on the “name the foal” story which got onto six-one news nationwide – a PR coup. T...
Blog 1 Maxine O' Sullivan My name is Maxine O Sullivan and I am from Lombardstown which is just outside Mallow in Co. Cork. My Dad is a racehorse trainer therefore most of my equine knowledge is in horse racing and especially point to pointing rather than the breeding side of the industry. I have an amateur licence and I ride in point to points whenever I can and I was lucky enough...
Osblog 4 Richard Griffiths in the Racing Post has risen to the challenge to try to discover the missing measure for success which we are currently overlooking or undervaluing. At the Irish National Stud we stand a statistician’s dream horse Big Bad Bob, recently highly praised (again) by Bill Oppenheim, one of the first to discover his outperformance. It is fair to say that Ger L...
Osblog 3 The small number of new stallions in 2012 – we have none – is a matter of some debate. Coolmore created two prospects and bought another, while the Maktoum family created one. The rest of us ought to have had opportunities, but there were few candidates, certainly on our tracking list. We need to find a horse which will be acceptable to o...
You may have seen some of the past pupil photos which have been circulating on Twitter recently. They highlight some of the great achievers who have passed through the INS stud management course. We receive our new intake in a couple of weeks. They look an impressive bunch. As Alex Ferguson said towards the end of last season “Arsenal have the easiest run-in, ON PAPER” after wh...
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