G1 Flat-G1 Winning Jump Jockey 1996-2019, A Kilcullen boy, @racingTV presenter, @sportinglife & @skybet daily nap, Health is wealth, Enjoy the Journey.
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Jun 13
What a winner means 👌👌
"If I had a better trainer, she'd have won sooner!" Owner Aidan Archdeacon was in playful form with @Franmberry & the snappily-dressed Michael Browne after the deserved success of Rodeeve at @Fairyhouse this evening
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Jun 12
Roscommon 12-June-2006 @RoscommonRaces
#20yearsago #archives #fromthearchive #memories #HorseRacing #HealyRacing #ReelingInTheYears #OnThisDay
Faces at the races...
@Franmberry
Shane Gorey
Mick Kinane
Colm O'Donoghue
(c)healyracing.ie
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Jun 11
5 horses to note from the past few weeks action in Ireland including 2 from the recent @IREthoroughbred trials day @NaasRacecourse up now on @SportingLife.
Enjoy! 🤓🤓🏇🏇🏆🏆🇮🇪
☘️ @Franmberry with five it should pay to follow including a Friday runner at Gowran Park…
sportinglife.com/racing/news…
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Jun 10
Two classic winners together here 📷
Ronan Whelan won The Derby at Epsom 🏇🏼
Fran Berry won a golf classic at Rathsallagh ⛳
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🗣️ "I'd say the mile is a good fit for him."
Ger Lyons spoke to @Franmberry after saddling Res Ipsa to victory @LimerickRaces during a brilliant spell for the yard 🔥
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🗣️ "It's very, very special."
🗣️ "She's got a lot of class."
@Franmberry caught up with Classic-winning jockey @DylanBrowneMcM after his memorable weekend 🏆
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Jun 9
Nice to get my eye in ahead of the 2027 Ryder Cup at Adare Manor today🏌️♂️🏆🇪🇺🇺🇸🏆😅
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🗣️"It was effortless." 😎
@DylanBrowneMcM reflects upon Thundering On's extraordinary victory in the @Betfred Oaks @EpsomRacecourse
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Amid a stern backlash from trainers about the lack of consultation and the Racing NSW veterinary department’s planned implementation of the Sleip App, the regulator has revealed it will embark on a trial period following criticism from much of the training fraternity.
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Jun 4
Racecourse Media Group has reversed two years of falls by delivering payments of £118.4 million to its shareholder racecourses, the figure is up 4.8 per cent on the previous year's total
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Government urged to act after second report confirms Ireland has highest electricity prices in EU independent.ie/business/mone…
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Jun 3
Britain’s most prolific jockey back on a horse four months after cancer surgery mirror.co.uk/sport/horse-rac…
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🗣️"You've got to keep smiling, Rish"
This is guaranteed to brighten up your day! 💕
@RishiPersad1 | #SundaySeries
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May 31
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May 30
Worth a listen..🤐
May 30
"The jockeys should be able to have robust conversations" 🗣️
The team discuss James McDonald's suspension following last week's win on Romantic Warrior (and the drama that followed) 😅
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May 30
NFL practice squad players earn $234K a year to never play a game. Brady says a lot of them prefer it that way.
$13,000 a week. Same facilities, same planes, same meals as the active roster. Super Bowl ring if the team wins. And zero risk of failing on national television. Brady watched this for 20 years and realized many practice squad players had already reached the exact outcome they wanted.
The active roster pays $840,000 minimum, three and a half times more. But it comes with something most people underestimate: public, measurable, weekly accountability. Drop a pass in the fourth quarter and 70,000 people watched it happen. When practice squad players got promoted into that pressure, they crumbled. Same arms, same legs, same speed. Their talent survived the jump. Their appetite for judgment didn't.
The $606,000 gap between practice squad and active roster is the annual price of pressure-avoidance. Enough NFL players pay it voluntarily that a seven-time Super Bowl champion noticed a pattern.
Every evaluation system on earth measures people when nothing is on the line.
May 29
Tom Brady reveals the overlooked reason practice squad players never succeed in the NFL
It’s not a lack of talent.
Brady watched it happen for 20 years. The pattern was undeniable.
As soon as a practice squad player got promoted and had to perform under real pressure, they crumbled. It took years for Brady to understand why.
“There’s 53 guys on the active roster and there’s now 15 guys on the practice squad. So there’s 68 players. But those practice squad players are important because if anybody on the active roster gets hurt, they can get elevated to the squad.”
“These scout team receivers would come in and practice with the scout team and they do really well. And I’d be watching. I’m like, ‘Man, we got to get that guy. Let’s get him up on offense. He’s making a lot of plays.’”
“Then all of a sudden, we’re like, ‘Hey man, you’re doing really well. You got to come over here and deal with the pressure of succeeding now that you have expectation.’”
“And these guys are like, they weren’t prepared for it. So whatever we saw in practice against where there was not a lot of pressure, now when they’re put in a situation where there’s an expectation for performance, they’ve never had to personally deal with that and then they fail.”
“And then what I realized was a lot of guys on those practice squads, they don’t want to be elevated to the roster.”
“They’re very happy living this life where they could tell their family and friends, which I have no problem with that. But the reality is a lot of guys don’t want the pressure of dealing with top.”
Twenty years in the league and seven Super Bowl rings later, Brady learned that talent wasn’t the hardest thing to find.
It was people who actually wanted the pressure that comes with being great.
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