IT’S 40 years since the first Irish racing annual was published and the anniversary is marked in The Irish Racing Yearbook 2018 which has just been published.

Edited by Daragh Ó Conchúir, the Yearbook seems heavier than ever this year. Among the personalities featured are Jessica Harrington and Robbie Power, Gordon Elliott, Patrick Mullins, Colin Keane, Davy Russell, Joe Osborne and Ana O’Brien.