Danny Mullins and the Flooring Porter Syndicate © Photo Healy Racing
The Irish Racing Yearbook 2023 is the definitive, established and revered annual chronicle of racing on these shores, covering the entire spectrum of the racing and thoroughbred industry in the form of interviews, profiles, analysis and more.
A collaboration of the best writers and photographers with the leading protagonists in all spheres from breeding to sales, from point-to-point to the racecourse, it has been a favourite stocking filler at Christmas for many years.
The cover story is an engaging, entertaining, opinionated and enlightening interview by editor, Daragh Ó Conchúir, with the four Mullins first cousins, Danny, David, Emmet and Patrick, 14 years after he had spoken to Danny, Emmet and Patrick for Irish Racing Yearbook 2009.
Rachael Blackmore, Aidan O’Brien, JP McManus, Billy Lee, Liz Lalor, Dermot McLoughlin, Shark Hanlon, Paddy Corkery, Ralph Beckett, Sean Levey, John McConnell, Dylan Browne McMonagle, Shane Crosse, Ellen and James Doyle, Kevin Coleman, Liam Keniry, Jack Foley and Paddy O’Hanlon are just a sample of those who have given interviews, while the Flooring Porter story has also been profiled.
Others featured include owner-breeders Moyglare Stud, the Aga Khan operation and Kirsten Rausing, as well as stallion men Ronnie O’Neill and Paul Cashman of Whytemount and Rathbarry Studs. Indeed a comprehensive thoroughbred breeding section extends to the digital publication, G1.
Apart from the editorial calibre and visual feast, the Irish Racing Yearbook is coveted by regular racing fans for the GO RACING vouchers kindly provided in conjunction with the racecourses of Ireland, offering free admission to 96 specific meetings throughout the year, at a total value of €2500. That constitutes just over than 75 times the price of purchase — more for those that capitalised on the significant pre-publication discounts.
A further taste of what's included:
“I had been thinking about this race for the last 12 months, and I just knew that I wanted to ride the race differently, ride him to his strengths, and if that got me beaten, then so be it” — Rachael Blackmore
“I don’t want to be somebody who withers away. I want to live every day like it’s my last and someday I’ll be right” — JP McManus
“Everybody has to do what they have to do to get people into racing, particularly young people” — Aidan O’Brien
“I can remember leaving my racing bag inside in Sister Bridie’s office at school because I had to go to ride in a bumper or something up in Clonmel” — Liz Lalor
“You’d like to think I’ll have another chance” — Billy Lee
Irish Racing Yearbook 2023 (€32.95/£29.50) is on sale now in all good newsagents and bookshops and can be ordered online (www.irishracingyearbook.com) or by phone ( 353 56 7761504).
