Pardubice

Industrial facilities in the Ústí nad Labem region featured most frequently in annual rankings of the Czech Republic's biggest environmental polluters compiled by environmental group Arnica last year.

The Moravian Silesian and Pardubice regions followed.

Major sources of pollution included power plants, chemical factories and other industrial facilities.

Reported emissions of certain pollutants increased compared with the previous year, including so-called forever chemicals, formaldehyde and greenhouse gases, Arnica representatives told reporters.

But the Johnny Flavin trade, always scoring, came down the outside, completing a treble on the day for Jack C. Donoghue.

Of course, Keith, who won the Velka Pardubice aboard, filed orders for the Granville Yard a couple of weeks ago in Pardubice in the Czech Republic.

But what a wonderful performance for him today in the saddle.

hat-trick, a three-timer for Keith Donoghue and his man riding at the best top of his form when you think of it.

What a performance.

What an incredible thing to do for, uh, Gavin Cromwell and, uh, and Keith Donehue to g- not just go and win a Pardubice, but win back-to-back Pardubices.

Incredible, wasn't it, Barry?

Absolutely.

Yeah, we did three rounds.

We had, I think, Kings Lynn, the year I won was Kings Lynn, Pardubice, and Gdansk.

Okay.

Yeah.

Scotland manager Melissa Andreatta has described herself like a kid in a candy store as she prepares for tonight's FIFA Women's World Cup semi-final playoff against Czechia.

There are potentially four games for Scotland to negotiate to make it to next summer's World Cup, starting with tonight's first leg tie in Pardubice, an hour east from Prague.

Qualification would be the first time since 2019 that the women's team have made it to a major international tournament, having missed out at the playoff stage to the Republic of Ireland in 2022 and then to Finland just under two years ago.

And Andreatta has said that any pressure from the game should be seen as a reward for the squad for the fact they have put themselves in this position.

Yeah.

Just very quickly give a big ups to, 'cause I think it'll go a bit under the radar, but Gavin Cromwell and Keith Donegan going to win that, uh, race in, uh, Pardubice, the Velka Pardubicka.

A huge achievement, I think.

Mm.

I, there's a very good book out there about, uh, I can't remember the name of the title.

Uh, I read about it.

It was the first woman jockey to, to won the P- Pardubice in the 40s.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

It, it's kind of offers galore this weekend, so there'll be lots of punters to enjoy.

And one final little li- uh, note as well, good luck to our ambassador, uh, Gavin Cromwell, who's got Fine Lord as the cross-country winner in the Pardubice in Czechia on Sunday.

Priced up the race already.

They've done a great job, our traders, pricing up this race, because, uh, after Fine Lord, as I've heard, of too many [laughs] of the horses.

They won it last year with Stumptown.

Um, might be able to, to win it again.

It's, it's a bucket list thing, the Pardubice, right?

It is.

... off the table.

But then I also found out that, uh, there's another arena in Pardubice, a home of, uh, Dynamo Pardubice, that is also closing, th- this time at the end of the year.

So they have one full season ahead, but then they're actually building what will be the largest hockey arena in the world in Pardubice.

It's actually, I think the capacity's gonna be, like, 23,000 or whatever-

Jeez

Like, you know, it's two guys advance, two guys are out until you get to the final.

And this is one of the oldest and most prestigious motorcycle speedway events in Europe apparently.

And again, the only reason we found out about this is because we were planning on being in Pardubice for a game on the, at Sunday night, and was like, "Well, why are there no hotels?" Like, this is a big city, but it's just we did find a place thankfully, and we're, we, to stay, but, um, you know, so many of the places were already sold out because this is a huge deal that in, in Czechia.