JP McManus

Willie Mullins keen to make up ground on Dan Skelton in race for British trainers’ title

Irishman reckons Grand National outcome on Saturday will be crucial to chances of retaining landmark British championship

Decision not to attempt Cheltenham Gold Cup-Grand National double is not mad, but it is bad for Aintree and sad for racing

JP McManus turns down chance for Gold Cup hero Inothewayurthinkin to emulate Golden Miller and win two big prizes in same season

Gold Cup winner Inothewayurthinkin pulled out of Grand National

Only one horse – Golden Miller in 1934 – has ever won the Gold Cup and Aintree Grand National in the same season

Willie Mullins says starting on bends was main problem at Cheltenham

Handicapper reckons Gold Cup hero Inthewayurthinkin has 15lbs in hand should he try to double up in Aintree Grand National

Another big day for Willie Mullins at Cheltenham despite Galopin Des Champs defeat

Friday’s wins take champion trainer’s tally for the week to 10, equalling his 2022 tally

Lulamba swagger may be too much for 11-strong Willie Mullins team in Triumph Hurdle at Cheltenham

Potential festival hotpot Dinoblue aiming to go one better than 2024 in Mares Chase

Cheltenham: ‘Finished article’ Jonbon favourite to deliver Champion Chase glory for owner JP McManus

Energumene bidding to emulate Badsworth Boy as triple winner of two-mile renewal

Cheltenham Festival: Majborough aiming to set the tone with Arkle victory for Willie Mullins and JP McManus

Opening Supreme Novices Hurdle named in memory of the late jockey Michael O’Sullivan who won the race in 2023

Denis Walsh: Suffocating stranglehold of rich owners has changed Cheltenham’s nature

The romance of the festival has been smothered and underdog stories have all but vanished

JP McManus: From fearless young punter to Cheltenham’s most successful racehorse owner

McManus has had 78 Cheltenham winners – far more than any other owner – but with his strongest-ever team set to compete next week, that number is likely to grow

Malachy Clerkin: Cheltenham’s thrill is gone as the best stories are replaced by the betting, the betting, the betting

Why would you care how many winners Willie Mullins or JP McManus add to their already huge total this week?

JP McManus team delaying decision on Fact To File’s Cheltenham target

Durkan winner is favourite for the Ryanair but only has Galopin Des Champs in front of him in Gold Cup betting

Grade One Scilly Isles option at Sandown open for Impaire Et Passe

State Man half-brother Soir De Garde hoping to be promoted from reserves and follow in family footsteps

Gerri Colombe could warm up over hurdles for another Cheltenham Gold Cup bid

Gold Cup runner-up ruled out of tilt at this Sunday’s Fleur De Lys Chase at Windsor

Rising star The New Lion snapped up by JP McManus

Darren Yates planning to leave racing at the end of the season after selling top novice hurdler.

‘He can get into a horse’s head’: The rise, scandal and reinvention of Gordon Elliott

School dropout from Co Meath has become an extraordinarily successful trainer, recovered from a self-inflicted scandal and built a ‘fascinating chemistry’ with his chief rival

It’s embarrassing how we Irish fawn over the super-rich, from Michael O’Leary to JP McManus

Here is a resolution for 2025: let’s stop glorifying extraordinary wealth. All great wealth reveals is that someone can afford to pay more tax

Festive plans for star McManus chasers could be clearer next week

Fact To File, Spillane’s Tower and Corbetts Cross all excelled as novices last term

Racing’s bittersweet progress makes popular underdog success stories unlikely

Modern jump racing has become too hardnosed to allow feelgood stories such as Danoli, Limestone Lad and Solerina

McManus team not ruling out Christmas Leopardstown option for Fact To File

Constitution Hill back in the frame to make return to action in Christmas Hurdle at Kempton

Fact To File clear Gold Cup favourite after exciting Durkan finish signals changing of the guard

Willie Mullins star beats Spillane’s Tower by half a length with reigning dual-Gold Cup winner Galopin Des Champs in third

Fact To File could head formidable JP McManus team into John Durkan test

Grade One winners Inothewayurthinkin and Spillane’s Tower also set to ‘tog out’ for Sunday’s €150,000 Punchestown feature

Buswells Hotel, opposite Leinster House, may be bought by London-based property firm

Roundstone Real Estate understood to have secured financing from company owned by nephew of JP McManus

Company that operates JP McManus’s Adare Manor resort posts a loss

The auditors report for Tizzard Holdings states that the company made a loss for the year to the end of December 2023

JP McManus’s International Rugby Experience closes after only a year

Business had intended to gift building in Limerick city to State, but negotiations stalled due to council fear of how to fund it

Next in line for success? Louis Walsh’s new boy band will have to conquer the primary school market first

Plus: The Ditch doing fine in a post-Paddy world; Fianna Fáil borrows from the DUP; and Brendan O’Carroll’s soft backing of Kamala Harris

Irish billionaires-backed Barchester’s profits soar

Nursing home business counts John Magnier, Dermot Desmond and JP McManus among its backers

Boylesports to sponsor Munster National for ‘significant’ six figure sum

JP McManus charity sweepstakes will make local charities winners by linking them with horses in the Munster National Festival’s feature race at Limerick Racecourse

Percival Legallois could spoil Gordon Elliott’s hopes of a landmark fifth Galway Plate success

JP McManus-owned In Excelsis Deo bids to become first cross-channel trained Plate winner since 2008

Three-time Cheltenham Champion Hurdle winner Istabraq dies, aged 32

Owner JP McManus: ‘He was a very special horse who gave us many great days of fun and enjoyment’

Los Angeles and Ryan Moore supply Aidan O’Brien with 16th Irish Derby success

Coolmore boss John Magnier backs €1.25 million Curragh Classic staying at a mile and a half

Adare bypass tenders must commit to completion before 2027 Ryder Cup

Bypass of Limerick village critical to traffic flows at high profile golf tournament and an intrinisic element of larger N69 Foynes to Limerick TEN-T project

Billionaire JP McManus endorses Independent candidate Helen O’Donnell in Limerick mayor race

Former rugby star Jerry Flannery backs ex-Department of Finance secretary general John Moran ahead of ballot

British Virgin Islands-based company buying up portfolio of premium Dublin properties

Dublin offices of Davy linked to complex network of international finance and property investment and development groups

Family affairs: How Ireland’s newly rich are putting money to work in secretive firms

As a result of sales of businesses, a plethora of family investment vehicles have sprung up in Dublin around Fitzwilliam Square and its adjacent streets

I Am Maximus secures Grand National victory as Irish horses dominate

Paul Townend secures first win in the race as Willie Mullins takes second and JP McManus a third

JP McManus opts for Paul Townend to ride I Am Maximus in Grand National

Champion jockey aiming to pull off jump racing’s unofficial ‘Triple Crown’ in single season

Grafton Street: What does it cost to rent a building there? It depends which part of it you want

International brands keen to get footholds in Dublin, says real-estate expert, even as business group says planners should broaden options for city-centre thoroughfare

Who owns Grafton Street? Wealthy Irish families and faceless funds control 119 of Dublin’s most valuable buildings

From large pension funds to wealthy private investors, the owners of Dublin’s most famous shopping street enjoy large rent rolls from some of the biggest names in the Irish retail sector

Willie Mullins sets new record for winners in a season with 631-1 Easter Sunday seven-timer

Champion trainer Willie Mullins reaches 238 winners for season in Ireland with over a month of the jumps campaign left

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