“Do breeders get any reward for breeding a Cheltenham Festival winner other than telling their neighbours and friends that they did it,” said Jane Mangan who made some strong points around financial rewards for NH breeders at the ITBA seminar last week.

Delighted! Our Mare Thricha’s second foal is a winner first time out! Her two half sisters here just became more exciting 🤩

Doing a little experiment here today and taking the plunge! A paddock of MSS and a paddock of clover going in today. Silage cut from them Wednesday last DLF

Something different this week! Quick few words in the Irish Farmers Journal Tow And Fert Europe DLF Seeds IRL farmersjournal.ie/my-farming-wee…

Over the moon here! Thricha, Tangos dam out relaxing with her Valirann filly foal this morning. She has big boots to fill! Congrats to everyone involved with this lovely filly. Many more good days to come with her I’m sure!

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Want to win two flexi tickets to any day of the Leopardstown Christmas Racing Festival and some extra goodies thanks to our future hosts Leopardstown Racecourse?? To enter just retweet & like this tweet and follow Thoroughbred Tales and Leopardstown RC before 9pm tonight (26th)

*Graphic photos* Just some of the horrific dog attacks on sheep reported by Irish Farmers Journal in recent weeks. With lambing starting on many farms what is Garda Info Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration & Simon Harris TD doing about this? Read more here: shorturl.at/ajvEX

🗣 "She's a class act." A momentous day for Brian Hayes who tastes #CheltenhamFestival success for the first time courtesy of Impervious' courageous win in the Paddy Power Mares' Chase

Great to have such a chilled out bunch! Batch of 20 bulling heifers really enjoying their last field of oats, barley and vetch🐄🌱

Thanks for the kind words re this interview and to Piers Morgan Uncensored/Rosanna Lockwood for having me. We are awful for squabbling amongst ourselves in this industry, but I'll you tell what, we have a breed, a sport and an industry that is worth uniting & fighting for. Stand Up For Racing

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And a after a brief respite the shite weather makes a return… For a whole variety of reasons…weather being one of the big ones, I can honestly say the last year has been the most mentally taxing and at times disheartening year in my farming career.

It's funny how much denial there is around the emissions figures from agriculture being wrong - which they are. This is just a fact and here are the ways in which they are wrong: 1) Overestimated - in Ireland, the volume of actual methane that comes from cows is overestimated by

And this Good Morning Bloodstock is excellent from Martin Stevens "Too small" is the often safest default option for so many agents - and sports' coaches! There are an awful lot of enormous-but-useless-enormously-expensive racehorses out there. racingpost.com/bloodstock/new…

29.1 litres in the tank from this 4th lac Lighthouse cow this morning. 20.9 litres the night before so she hit the 50litres in a day. 5 weeks calved and only 2 days at grass yet! 💪🏻🐄

Coolback Lighthouse Afie - VG 88 on her last lactation put 22.8L in the tank this evening for good measure 🥛

Coolback Humble Aoife (Humblenkind) before and after milking last night. 4 weeks calved into her 3rd lac but unfortunately had a great big heifer calf with a heart defect. Classified VG86 on her second lactation.

Dawstown - 5yo+ Mares Mdn I C U IN MY DREAMS (IRE) R James Robert James Thomas J. Sinnott RACE RESULT : p2p.ie/results.php?ra…