Seamus Heffernan

Dermot Weld joined an exclusive club when Tarnawa swept to Breeders Cup glory in the $4 million Turf at Keeneland on Saturday night. On a programme w(...)

Trainer Ger Lyons has dismissed speculation linking his jockey Colin Keane to the job as Aidan O’Brien’s No 1 rider next year. Keane’s pursuit of t(...)

Some of the greatest stayers in history are on the Prix Royal-Oak’s roll of honour and Princess Zoe is favourite to join them when she lines up in Par(...)

The remarkable Princess Zoe will try to emulate staying legends Yeats and Vinnie Roe by winning Sunday’s Prix Royal-Oak in Paris. Tony Mullins’s ma(...)

Colin Keane teams up with Aidan O’Brien’s two runners at Cork on Tuesday as he closes in on Ireland’s jockeys’ championship. Keane, the 2017 champion(...)

The head of Ireland’s on-course bookmakers body has said he is pinning his hopes on being able to go back to work on the racecourse before Christmas. (...)

The inaugural running of Ireland’s richest two-year-old race saw Aidan O’Brien’s Chief Little Hawk spring a 22-1 surprise at Naas on Sunday. Owned b(...)

The richest race in Europe this weekend will be the inaugural €320,000 EBF Ballyhane Stakes at Naas on Sunday. This hugely lucrative pot is the most(...)

A unique Investec Epsom Derby on Saturday could be the scene for a historic eighth victory in racing’s most prized contest by Aidan O’Brien. The Iris(...)

It’s not contradictory that Séamus Heffernan is both racing’s most enduring understudy and one of the most successful Irish jockeys of all time. The (...)