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Cruise ship passengers flood Vancouver during busiest weekend of season
Cruise ship passengers flood Vancouver during busiest weekend of season

Global News

time29-06-2025

  • Business
  • Global News

Cruise ship passengers flood Vancouver during busiest weekend of season

Thousands of cruise ship passengers are making their way through Vancouver this weekend during the busiest weekend of the industry's season. Two ships arrived at Canada Place on Saturday, including Princess Cruises' Sapphire Princess and Holland America Line's Koningsdam. They are some of the 11 ships the Port of Vancouver is welcoming over the last four days of June, with a projected 47,000 visitors on board. The cruise ship terminal was bustling with tourists Saturday, disembarking the vessels and boarding tour buses. Avery Mahony at Mahony's Tavern says her workplace was anticipating a rush from the cruise ship crowd, as it has seen on previous weekends. Get breaking National news For news impacting Canada and around the world, sign up for breaking news alerts delivered directly to you when they happen. Sign up for breaking National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy 'Especially since we're in the peak season that we just get so many customers especially internationally, and it's really good for business,' she said. Story continues below advertisement 4:52 Cruise season ramps up in downtown Vancouver Chance McKee with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority calls the economic impact provided by cruise lines and their passengers 'truly phenomenal.' 'Cruise lines themselves spend around $660 million every cruise season on things like reprovisioning their ships, conducting any sort of maintenance of repairs while in port,' said McKee. 'Passengers spend on average around $450 each on things like local shopping, attractions, restaurants and tours.' Even after this weekend's peak, the Port of Vancouver anticipates 35,000 to 40,000 passengers to pass through Canada Place every weekend through the end of the season. More than 300 ship calls are scheduled at the port during this cruise season, with 1.2 million passengers projected to visit the city.

Gypsy Queen quickens to emphatic victory
Gypsy Queen quickens to emphatic victory

Irish Examiner

time29-05-2025

  • Sport
  • Irish Examiner

Gypsy Queen quickens to emphatic victory

Stepping up on her recent debut in Limerick, the Willie McCreery-trained Gypsy Queen ran out an emphatic winner of the six-furlong End Of School Year Maiden in Fairyhouse. The well-backed Pinatubo filly came from off the pace under Billy Lee to master uneasy favourite Sapphire Princess, before beating long-time leader Manhattan Chute by almost five lengths. 'She's home-bred, so this is important,' stated McCreery. 'Billy said she loved the bit of ease in the ground. She quickened up nicely and won well. 'She was on her head early on, so seven furlongs might suit her. We'll try to find a 'winners of one' or a fillies' handicap for her next.' Jamie Powell recorded his fifth win of the season and was seen to good effect on board Danny Murphy's No Return, a Curragh maiden winner in the spring, in the six-furlong Fairynights @Fairyhouse Handicap. Although drawn high, the Kodiac gelding broke well, was soon able to dictate the pace and, in the closing stages, kept on well to beat top-weight Misappropriation by a length and a quarter with favourite Gazelle D'or, from off the pace, in third. 'There was no pace angle and Jamie got a soft lead,' commented the successful trainer. 'He's a good money-spinner and six furlongs is perfect for him.' Owner-trainer Matty Tynan declared: 'I'm in the game a long time and this is the best day of my racing life,' after his grand-daughter Orla, 18, who is apprenticed to Andy Slattery, savoured her first success in the saddle. 'I'm glad I'm alive to see it, my grand-daughter riding a winner for me,' after 33-1 shot Solomon Coop bolted up in the House Restaurant Apprentice Handicap. Winner of an 'optional claimer' in Ballinrobe last time and better suited by this more galloping track, the Johnny Murtagh-trained Fantazy Man defied a mark of 81 and top-weight in the concluding Country & Western Handicap, staying on dourly up the straight for Ben Coen to beat Edergole's Angel by almost five lengths and giving the impression that he'll have no problem stepping-up to a mile and a half. And Murtagh's apprentice Yudish Geerdharry enjoyed a welcome change of luck when taking the seven-furlong handicap on board the Diego Dias-trained 40-1 shot Lovely, who pipped Mother Mara, denying trainer Ger O'Leary, successful earlier with Yaxchilan, a double.

Townend set to keep up strike rate
Townend set to keep up strike rate

Irish Examiner

time29-05-2025

  • Sport
  • Irish Examiner

Townend set to keep up strike rate

Limerick and Fairyhouse previews Champion-jockey Paul Townend might strike on his only ride in Limerick, the Willie Mullins-trained Keep Up, in the RAYN Safety & Security Mares Maiden Hurdle. This daughter of Storm The Stares has raced only twice, but impressed when turning over odds-on favourite and subsequent winner Jerry From Kerry on her debut at Roscommon last August, forging clear in the closing stages to triumph by five and a half lengths. That performance earned Keep Up a crack at the listed 'Mucklemeg' at Gowran Park in October, always a competitive end-of-summer contest. And, although she failed to make an impression, she fared better than better-fancied stable-companion Carmeletta Vega in filling fifth spot behind Aruntothequeen and Mozzies Sister (a subsequent hurdle winer and placed in Grade 1 company). The strength of that form is reflected in the fact that Keep Up, twenty-three lengths clear of the sixth, finished just three-quarters of a length behind Paddy Twomey's Seo Linn, who has progressed to win a listed mares event in Cheltenham and. Grade 2 in Aintree. Sure to be well-schooled for her hurdling bow, Keep Up should prove too strong for the consistent, Gordon Elliott-trained Emily Love. Later, Kiln Time, in the familiar Bowe colours, should be noted in the Franke Dunworth Handicap Hurdle. A winner, off 81, at Naas three runs back, he has since finished third to Wyoming Baby in Cork and, last time, filled fourth spot in a handicap chase won by Riggs in Wexford. Back over hurdles here, with Cian Quirke again in the plate, Kiln Tim should reward each-way support. We also have flat action in Fairyhouse where the Ger Lyons-trained Juddmonte filly Sapphire Princess will be expected to open her account, at the third attempt, in the End Of School Year Maiden. This Kingman filly was made odds on for her debut in a seven-furlong Cork maiden but failed to cope with Dermot Weld's Bella Isabella. Dropped back in trip, she sought compensation on the same track three weeks ago but came up short, finishing third, beaten six lengths, behind City Of Memphis and Bonus Time. At the weekend, Bonus Tiem landed a six-furlong Curragh maiden while City Of Memphis, supplemented to the race, finished a creditable fifth to Laske Victoria in the Tattersalls Irish 1,000 Guineas. On that basis, Sapphire Princess should take plenty of beating here, with Sun Soldier the most likely threat.

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