Old-timerFrHumphreyshakesRocky’s Howya

ROCKY’SHOWYA,the season’s leadinghorse with seven victories,was deniedaneighth after ashockdefeatbyarival morethantwice as old.

Thehorse who beat him was Fr Humphrey,a 15-year-old gelding owned, trained and ridden by NiamhHennessy

It washer firstride of the season, her initial successasa trainerand firstasarider but there wasnoflukeabout Hennessy’s winner

Although victorywas amajor surprise, Fr Humphrey fully deservedhis success over Declan Queally’s seven-yearold stablestarinthe Killeady Hunt Supportersopen on a marathon ten-racecard.

Fr Humphrey,awinnerfive times under rules for Mary Hallahan, Willie Treacyand morerecently Neil Mulholland,

Star performance

CaptainBellamy was a classabove provenhorses on hisdebutand looks everyinchafuturestar alwaystravelled well as Rocky’s Howyamade acouple of uncharacteristic jumpingerrors in trying to forcethe pace

He nness y, ri din gt he outsider of six, swept past the

1-2 favourite twoout to winby four and ahalf lengths

“I work with the breeze-up horses for Brendan Holland at GroveStud,”Hennessysaid

“Brendan kindlyallowsmeto keep my twopointers and thisis my firstseason with alicence.”

Th eJon at ha nFog ar tytrained newcomer Captain Bellamy (right) hinted at a bright futureonthe trackby destroying theopposition in a division of the Goffs Punchestown Sale four-year-maiden.

He ledfromsix outand sto rm ed cl ea rf ro mt he second-lastunder Barr St one to b Ca stl eto w Ge og he ga n thirdUnion Avenue by 14 lengths

“T his is fa nt as tic , unbelievable,” Fogartysaid o the BlackSa Be ll am y- s i Ca ptain B ell am y , whosedam is ahalf-sister to US jumpsperformer Hirapour “Hewas unsold at Doncaster as athree-year-old in Mayand Kevin McAuliffe then sent him to me.He’ll be sold now.”

RobJamessteered debutant Off TheJury,whom he trains for the Ma tchm ak ers Syndicate, to aclearcut debut successinthe second division.

Off Th e Ju ry to ok mand twoout d ,a lt ho ugh unninggreen n the closing stages, the son of Ju keb ox Jury beat Ski L od ge by three lengths o boo kh is sagetotomorGoffs sale at Punchestown

Ow ner -tr ai ner De nis Murphysaddledtwo winners, the Ballyboystables operator openingwith newcomer Binge Worthy ina divisionofthe Tattersalls NH maiden.

TheWalk In ThePark-sired winner,whosedam is ahalfsister to Cheltenham Gold Cup winner MinellaIndo, pickedup the runningbeforethe lastfor Jack Hendrick to defeat Itsnoteasy by alength

Murphywas then on the mark with Wild Side Of Life in the sec ond di vision, the LoughanmoreOctober debut thirdleadingfromtwo out under Joey Dunne to beat Ri Na Cuirte by four lengths

Trainer-rider BennyWalsh recorded his firstdouble as a handler and signed off aboard the impressivenewcomer Lightening Mahler inthe third division of the KilleadyHunt Members Race mares’ maiden. TheSeamus Osborne-owned baystormed clear from the last to beat Emily’sChoice by four and ahalf lengths

Walsh gotoff the mark on Harrys Hope,representinghis wife Jenny, in the second division of thisrace with the sw ee t- ju mp in gc he st nu t accountingfor MorningStar by four and ahalf lengths Coli nB ow ea nd Ba rr y O’Neillcombinedtolandthe firstdivision with Nt Field Minn es ota ,w hile Mo ir a McElligottjoinedMaxine O’Sullivan on sevenwinners in the ladyriders’title race by bringingher husband Willie Murphy’s Barton Snow from off the pace to landthe Killeady Hunt Landownersmaiden.

ThePadraig Butler-trained mare Imperial Fox,owned and bred by Clonakilty point-topo in tl an do wn er Le sli e Beamish,won the closing Crossbarry Innadjacenthunts maiden under JamesHannon.