A selection of pictures from a year in racing

Djakadam and Ruby Walsh appear out of the fog to win the Thyestes at Gowran Park last January

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Vautour (Ruby Walsh) looks as if he could go around again having won the JLT Novices’ Chase at Cheltenham in March

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Young racegoers at a rain soaked Listowel on day one of the September Harvest Festival

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Master Appeal and Donagh Meyler part company at the first at Gowran Park in October but both were okay after their fall

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A fine day out at Laytown in September for the Mulvany family from Bettystown, Co Meath

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Dylan Browne McMonagle does a flying dismount from Let's Go after winning the Dawn Milk Dingle Derby in August

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Gordon Elliott can’t hold back as he congratulates Paul Carberry after winning the Bibby Financial Services Ireland Punchestown Gold Cup on Don Cossack Photo Caroline Norris

Carnage and the end of the punters’ banker as Annie Power and Ruby Walsh part company at the last in the OLBG Mares Hurdle at Cheltenham as Lunique and Wayne Hutchinson (red/white) also crash out Photo HEALY RACING

Sarah McEvoy from Jonesboro shows off her best dressed style credentials at this year’s Northern Ireland Festival of Racing at Down Royal in October

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Noel McParlan is unseated before the start of the open lightweight from Carsonstown Boy before eventually finishing a narrow second at Tinahely in January