{"id":223181,"date":"2025-06-29T05:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223181\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:24:13","slug":"i-see-the-soul-and-then-i-work-from-there-eleanora-kennedy-on-using-her-skill-for-picking-juries-to-buy-horses-and-her-dealings-with-evil-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/223181\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I see the soul and then I work from there\u2019 \u2013 Eleanora Kennedy on using her skill for picking juries to buy horses and her dealings with \u2018evil\u2019 Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nFor over 40 years, Eleanora Kennedy and her husband Michael were a legal and activist dream team who represented Ivana Trump in her divorce from US President Donald. After Michael\u2019s death, Eleanora moved to Ireland to help heal her broken heart, and found a new passion in horseracing\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Eleanora Kennedy at her stables in Co Kildare. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/571aaf1e-1de0-404a-a04f-a8663f8cdaaf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Eleanora Kennedy at her stables in Co Kildare. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThis is the highlight of my life; after this, it\u2019s over, I could leave now.\u201d So says Eleanora Kennedy as she hands me a small brochure with \u2018Goodwood\u2019 written on it. It turns out to be a dinky little video player. Open it, and it replays the race won by Kennedy\u2019s horse, Black Forza, last August, the Markel Richmond Stakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The brochure\/ video was presented to Kennedy by the Duke of Richmond, who owns Goodwood racecourse. We watch, together, in her suite at the K Club. And it is one hell of a race. Black Forza, in red and black \u2013 \u201cthe Sandinista colours\u201d \u2013 lines up with The Strikin Viking, owned by the Emir of Qatar, and favourites Tropical Storm and Billboard Star, who shuffle first place between them for most of the six furlongs. At the back, literally out of shot for well over half the race, Black Forza is an afterthought. Until, with barely half a minute to go, he surges forward, passes the field and wins by a comfortable nose. It is, as Kennedy says, \u201cthree minutes from heaven. Nothing will ever beat that\u201d. She continues. \u201cThis goes beyond Ascot [yes, she\u2019s had two wins there] \u2013 I watch it every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For over 40 years, Eleanora Kennedy and her husband Michael were a legal and activist dream team who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[32,88062,79124,1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-223181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-emily-hourican","10":"tag-life-magazine","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114764989869181783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}