Point-to-Point Weekly Racing Post 16/11/2022

DerekO’Connor

Straight to thePoint Talkingpointsgalore: last-fence crashestoapersonalmilestone

SPREAD over three fixtures last weekend, therewerefive maidens in the four-year-old category,and they provided plenty of talkingpoints.

AtDromahane,the complexion changed late on in both the mares’ race and the geldings’event.

Donnchadh Doyle’sfilly Theatre Nativeput in abrilliantfront-running performance and hadrun her rivals into the ground when fallingatthe final fence

It wasreally tough luck, butI’m sure this will be only aminor setback for the daughterofGetaway. She made abig impression and looks a potentialstar in the making.

She’sa half-sistertotwo promising horses by Fame And Glory, the Peter Fahey-trainedgelding Ambitious Fellow, and NickyHenderson’smare Theatre Glory.

Ambitious Fellowwas a40-1 winner of the RedMills Auction Hurdle Series Finalatthe Punchestown festivaland hasproved that wasnoflukebywinningnovice races at Roscommon and Listowel.

TheatreGloryhas wonfiveofher sixraces,endinglastseasonwithan odds-on wininaListedmares’ novice hurdle at Cheltenham

In the geldings’race,Iwas heading for victoryonthe Ellmarie Holdentrainednewcomer MirazurWest until he alsobecame avictim of that last fence.

Ilikehim alot and he’s ahorse with agoodhome reputation. Not surprising, because he’s abrother to FernyHollow, the 2020 Cheltenham bumper winner and Grade 1chase winner who would have made his seasonal debutinthe FortriaChase at Navanonthe same daybut forthe ground beingtoo quick.

John Nallen’sShantou gelding MinellaDouble,came through to winfor JohnnyBarry.He’saclose relation to DeathDuty, anovice Grade 1winner over hurdles and fences for Gordon Elliott.

At Sunday’sother fixture at Knockmullen HouseDonnchadh Doyleand theMonbeg Syndicategot some compensation for Theatre Native’smisfortune when Flash In TheParkran outa 20-length winner

This wasa 50th winner in points for Brian Lawless, who shared the novice riders’title with BenHarvey in 2020. He hadhis best season last

year with a22-winner scorethat put him in fifth place on the leading riders’listwith ahealthy21per cent strike-rate.

Jack Hendrick rode 17 winnerslast season, with the same percentage as Brian. He rode Future Perfecttowin themares’maiden for Denis Murphy.

Amilestone I’ll alwaysremember THERE wasalsoafouryear-old maiden at Necarne

Saturday –a race I’ll remember as alandmarkinmy career

Southoftheborder,a geldingbyLeading Light, wasmyfirst runner as ahandler and Iwas pleased with the wayhewon

It’s goingtoadd another dimension for me,but I’ve been involved as arider with some of the best andmostknowledgeable people in the game for 20-odd years now and I’ve always triedtolearn as much as Icould. I’ve pickedup plenty of experience to help me alongthe way.

I’mveryfortunatetohaveanice bunch of young horses to work with, and I’mlookingforward to getting themall goinggradually.

Establishedriders setfine example to youngsters CHAMPION BarryO’Neill got another fivewinners on the boardat

the weekend. He took the lastthree races at Necarnefor three different trainers,highlighted by asecond open winofthe season for The Storyteller,and adouble at Knockmullen House.

ChrisO’Donovancontinuedhis good start to the campaign with a maiden winner for Mick Wintersat Dromahane.He’snow hadseven winners from only 12 rides this season.

Establishedriders wonmostofthe races at the three meetings,but some up-and-comingnames alsomadea mark

Gary McGill, who rode four winners lastseason, his firstfull season, hasalreadymatched that totalthis term afterridingthe Kevin Ross-trainedElRio to wina Newcarne.OnSundayhis brother Oran rode the family’sDollys Destination to winahandicap hurdle at Navan.

Adam Leahy, 19, gotoff the mark last year when ridingthe Shark Hanlon-trainedRewritetherules to winatMoira.

After pickingupvaluable experience in the Willie Mullins yard, he’s workingfor Mick Goff nowand hadtwo rides for the stable at Knockmullen House.

Thefirst wasonDefiniteDream,a Mahler filly he bought for €800 at a store sale last year.Itlooksasifhe mighthavepickedupabargain because sheshouldbeabletowin a maiden to judgefromher good runin takingsecondbehindFuturePerfect

Laterinthe day, Adam went one better on Dare To Shout, aMartaline geldingout of the Willie Mullins trainedGrade 2hurdles winner Dare To Doubt

Adam hasabackground in hunting and eventing. At one stagehegot tuition from trainer LouiseLyons,a former Olympic three-day-event rider.

He’s atall lad butworks hard on his strength in the gymand,like many of the young riders Isee in yardsaround the country, he’s extremely dedicated and keen to make the best useofhis talents.

He’s bound to learn plenty in the Goff yard,and it’s good to see the younger generation gettingthe opportunities theyneedtodevelop There’snosubstitute for race-riding experience.

‘Chris O’Donovan hashad seven winnersfrom only 12 rides this season ’

She’sa daughterofMount Nelson and hasanattractivepedigree, being outofa Flemensfirth mare Apple Trix,who is asistertoacouple of useful stayingjumpers,the Dan Skelton-train Ashtown Lad and Jonjo O’Neill’sBeg To Differ

on

from another newcomer Mullys

Choice.Therewas agoodgap back to the thirdWild Side Of Life,who hadaprevious rununder his belt and startedfavourite

FlashInThe Park providedBrian Lawlesswithhis 50th wininpointsinthe four-year-old geldings’maiden

Pictures: HEALYRACING

Hugh

Finegan

talksabout combiningfarm work with training andbreeding

WE’VE hada greatcouple of weeks with two point-topointwinnersfromjustsix runners and anicemaiden hurdle winner on the trackat Wexford, Ms AgarthaYeats

Mustameet Secret wonat Moiraand then Meet My Lorely wonfor us at Lisronagh and both were ridden by my nephew Eoghan.

It wasgreat to be able to give Eoghan his firstwinner at Moiraaswebroughta couple of the horses backfromthe trackbecause he hadstarted ridingand we wanted to give him ashotatit.

He’s averygood riderand lastyear we hadacouple of young horses whichmeant he wasunder the radar, buthe hasplentyofexperience behind him now, and that experience he gotlastseason is really showing nowona better typeofhorse

Hismum wasbig into showjumping, so he startedoff

‘There arelightson thegallops to letus startearly before work on thefarm’

showjumpingand hunting beforehetook up an interest in racingand startedcoming down to me.He’sbeencoming to me since he was12or13 years old and he’s been agreat assettothe yard

He’s at college now, but while he wasinschool he would have beeninherefor 6am to ride outbeforeschool and then I’ddrophim to school for 9am

We liketostartearly in the morninghereasthe sucklerand-sheep farmwehaveisour main business

Thereare lights on the gallops to let us startearlyand get all theworkdone with the horses beforefocusing on thefarm. That’s the plan, butit doesn’t alwayswork outlikethat as the waythe horses are goingatthe momenttheyare takingupa lot of time. We bred Mustameet Secret

Dreaperfollows in the best family tradition

TOMDREAPER became the latest member of his famous family to saddlea winner when SizingDiamond scored at Necarne on Saturday.

TheDreaper name is synon ymous with jump racing, with his grandfather and namesake responsiblefor producing some of the sport’sgreatest performers,including 26 winners at the Cheltenham Festival, fiveinthe Gold Cup and sixinthe QueenMother Champion Chase, arecordthat is yettobesurpassed

Arkle,Flyingbolt,and Fortria arejustsome of thenames associated with Dreapersnr beforehis sonJim followed himonthe traininglicenceto establish acohortoftalent which includedTen Up,Lough Inaghand BrownLad.

This latestDreaper name to featureonaracecard sent out his first runneratCorbeagh House11months agoand, after havinghad to settle for second spot on four occasions last season, it wasSizing Diamond who gave him theall importantbreakthrough

With afurther ten horses with hunter certificates this season, the Dreapername looks settofeature prominently in the pointing fields for many yearstocome

Elliott’sStoryteller adds another keychapter

Thevictory of TheStoryteller in Saturday’sNecarne open broughtGordonElliott’s tally this season to seven and places him at the top of the handlers’ table with astartling70per centstrike-rate.

TheMeath trainer did gethis hands on the handlers’title back in 2013 beforeColin Bowe’s dominationinthe category hit top gear,and this season’ssuccesseshavebeen achieved largelydue to the formidable team of open horses he hasassembled.

Elliott is not the onlymajor tracktrainer takinga leading role in the open division, with HenrydeBromhead having taken outhuntercerts for some notable horses lastweek.

Monaleeischief amongthem as aGrade 1winnerwho has twicefinished second at the Cheltenham Festival, however, BarryMaloney’s11-year-old hasnot been seen sincehebeat one home in aListed chase at Thurles twoyears ago.

Hi ss ta ble mat eC hr is’s Dream could be setfor an imminentdebutinthe open division after he wasgiven an entryineachofthe coming weekend’s three open races

Theten-year-old wasbeaten only aneckinthe 2020 Grade 1 Ladbrokes Champion Chaseat Down Royalbythe dual open winner TheStoryteller

Road To Respect, Chatham Street Lad and Mitchouka are other well-known nameswho have received hunter certs in recentweeks and could soon appear in open lightweights.

CheveleyParkreturn to rich source at Tattersalls

Six days afterthe CheveleyPark Stud colourswerecarried to successbyone of their most successful purchasesfromthe point-to-pointfield in Envoi Allen, who cap tu re dh is seventhGrade 1inDown Royal’sChampion Chase, the owner-breeders were back sourcingmoreyoung talent.

Thestudhad been lessactive at jumpssales butthe Tattersalls Cheltenham November sale marked awelcome return.

They were responsible for the £360,000 bid to secure De nis Ho ga n’ sr ec en t Lisronaghwinner Mahon’s Way, the sale’stop lot

With Working Away not far behind at £330,000 and three of the top fivelots four-year-old mares, therewas evidence of the robust tradefor young mareswith form.

ourselveswhich addedtothe wininMoira.Her dam Never ASecretwas bred by my sister Emma.Ialso trainedher and she wonthree races on the trackfor us; they’rea greatfamily. We’renot bigbreeders, we have only a few mares, but it’s nicetohaveit.

Growingup, my father stood stallions andbredFor

Auction, who wonthe 1982 Champion Hurdle,sothere wasnoescaping it for us Dependingonthe horses and what is workingout best we usuallysellsomewebreed as foals butwerace the others with aviewtotryingtosell them

Ourother point-to-point winner this season, Meet My Lorely, wasone Ibought privately from her breeder Ken Parkhill, and Ithink agood bit of her Shewas fifth in a Downpatrickbumperfirst time

outand she wasanother that really only ranina point-to pointfor Eoghan.

It washer jumpingthat beat her the firstday whenshe was thirdatLoughanmore, butit improved in Lisronagh, so she made amends

It washer classthat gother through then. Shewants better ground, the three milesmight be far enough for her and she probably hastoo much speed for point-to-points.Ithink she could be an idealhurdler.

I’mopentooffersfor her and she’s aclassy typeofmare. We’ll go to the trackwithher if she’s notsold.

They arenicemares to have and it’s beenagreat starttothe season as we areonly asmall team. My daughter Gemmais very keen on racingand plays abig parthereand we have twoother greatworkers in Finn Tegetmeier and Ellie Dennis

Finn hasjustgone for his amateur licence and Iwould love to give him the chance; they’resodedicatedtocome inat6am in the morning. Ellie startedwithmeonlyin Februarybut hasbeenagreat addition too.

They aregreat kids,and only forthem pullingwith you,you wouldn’t be able to do it.

HUGH FINEGAN WASTALKING TO EOGHAIN WARD

Eoghain Ward

O’Neill roars ahead in title race with third hat–trick of the season

BARRY O’NEILL is steaming ahead in his bid for a seventh successive riders’ title with a hat-trick his third of the season at Necarne on Saturday

It took him to 16 winners for the season before a double at Kn oc km ullen Ho us e on Sunday lifted his total to 18.

Middle leg of his Necarne treble came for another man in form, trainer Gordon Elliott, on The Storyteller, who won a Grade 1 race under rules and prize-money of more than £406,000.

Th e 11- ye ar -old wa s following up victory at Bally crystal three weeks earlier and won by two lengths from Global Assembly in the Killy hevlin Hotel open, giving Elliott his seventh winner of the season and the lead in the handlers’ table

Although he was kept honest all the way to the line by a new addition to David Christie’s yard, Belclare maiden winner Global Assembly, he was able to cross the line with two lengths to spare.

Star performance

Marronstown continued David Christie’s strong recent run in the winners’ division with victory on his stable debut

“He showed his class there,” said O’Neill.” He’s a Grade one winner and never missed a beat in the jumping depart ment. He’ll continue on the open route until a hunter chase comes along for him.”

O’Neill started the ball rolling on Marronstown, another new recruit to the Christie yard, in the Tattersalls NH winners-of-two race to provide local supporters with something to cheer about as they proved five lengths too good for Big Reggie

He had made a winning start to his career in a Farmacaffley maiden in Februar y after which he was bought by O’Neill and Christie for £35,000 at the Tattersalls Cheltenham April sale

“He came recommended by Stuart Crawford and we knew he was good coming here today,” O’Neill said. “He jumped very well and I was never under pressure at any stage. I’m delighted for the syndicate owners, and they will have plenty more fun with this lad.”

The reigning champion jockey completed his hat-trick on Sizing Diamond in the SpanWright older geldings’ ma iden, pr ov idin g To m Dreaper with his first success as a handler

Dreaper, the son of trainer Jim, had saddled the Recital gelding to make an eyecatching debut at Farmacaffle y in February, a race from which he became the fourth winner when beating Patrick Magee’s Captain Cal by six lengths.

Dreaper was not the only handler to enjoy his first success. His feat was matched by Derek O’Connor O’Neill’s nearest challenger in the riders’ table on nine winners

Th e 11-time nat ion al champion sent out his first

runner as a trainer when Southoftheborder won the opening Dennison Commer cials four-year-old maiden ridden by the trainer himself

A €13,000 purchase, the Leading Light gelding matched the achievement of his King’s Theatre-sired dam Dante’s Queen, a Ballyragget winner nine years earlier, when he accounted for Mullys Choice by half a length.

“He did a lovely piece of work during the week and coming here today I thought he had a great chance,” O’Connor said.

“It is great to get that first winner on the board as a trainer My wife Carol owns him and it’s great to come here and win first time out. He won snugly there, and I was always holding the second. He’ll likely head to the sales after that.”

Those stalwarts of point-to pointing could have been forgiven for taking a second look at their racecard as they heard commentator Declan Phelan call Ah Whisht the

AT KNOCKMULLEN HOUSE SUNDAY

winner of the ITBA five-year old and up wa rd s ma re s’ maiden.

Th at wa s bec au se th is Getaway mare shares her name with one of the sport’s most successful horses, who won 29 ra ces for PP Ho ga n in a ten-year career from 1984 to 1994.

Ross O’Sullivan’s mare has a long way to go to emulate the

achievements of her namesake, but she made the perfect start to her career when Eadestown rider Tom Harney guided her to a one-length victory over Tattersalls runner-up Kayf Hope

“We really liked her at home,” Harney said. “I actually wanted to be further back but she was just tanking me everywhere. Jumping fence to fence she was

Hendrick is the Future Perfect stand–in for

FOR many years racegoers on the point-to-point circuit became accustomed to seeing Ja mie Co dd su cces sfully spor ting Denis Murphy’s orange and white silks

After Codd’s retirement from the pointing fields last year, his second cousin Jack Hendrick maintained the family connec tion with Murphy when he rode a first winner for the Ballyboy stables operator in Future Perfect in the White Horse Stud four-year old mares’ maiden.

Less than 48 hours after Murphy had sold Working Away, his only other four-year old winner of the season, to Gordon Elliott for £330,000, the Mount Nelson mare struck the front two out and although a host of challengers remained within striking distance, she was able to beat Definite Dream by a length and a half “That was nice. Her work in

Star performance

Flash In The Park turned the four-year-old geldings’ maiden into a procession with a devastating turn of foot

the last couple of weeks has been very good,” Murphy said.

“The filly we sold the other night [Working Away] was kind of a guide for this one as they had been working together at home

“Touch wood, there are another one or two nice fillies to come, as it looks on their homework anyway.”

It was far easier for Flash In The Park in the Tattersalls NH-sponsored geldings’ equiv alent as the €65,000 Walk In The Park gelding left his rivals toiling off the home bend as he powered clear to beat Daring Plan by 20 lengths Although disappointing

when pulled up as favourite for a Borris House maiden eight months ago, his transformation provided Wicklow rider Brian Lawless with his 50th success in the pointing fields, and Donnchadh Doyle’s charge will now go to the sales

“He’s a horse we always liked and we gave plenty of money for him as a store,” Doyle said. “He pulled up first time out but we shouldn’t have run him then be cau se the hors es weren’t right.

“All my horses were wrong in the spring, but they are all starting to run well now, and this fellow has been working well since the summer We fancied him coming here today and he is a lovely horse for the future.”

Mick Goff had to settle for the runner-up spot in the first two races but he enjoyed better luck when Dare To Shout beat The Butler Yeats by 12 lengths

in the Goffs Tingle Creek Sale five-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Bouncing back from a disap pointing run at Dromahane in Ap ri l, su pp or te rs of the Martaline gelding had few moments of worry as he edged clear under Adam Leahy and he could now take in a winners’ race next.

Fr esh fr om a Ne ca rne hat-trick 24 hours earlier, Barry O’Neill added another win to hi s wee ke nd ha ul w he n Shiroccosmagicbaby claimed the honours in the Gain Equine Nutrition five-year-old-and upwards mares’ maiden.

The Martin Murphy-bred daughter of Shirocco had finished a distant third at Tinahely in February but she made a significant impact on

Tennessee Titan and Troy Walsh come clear to land the older geldings’ maiden at Knockmullen House

unbelievable and never missed a beat. I’d say she’ll go to the sales now.”

Dara McGill had his fourth success of the campaign when guiding El Rio to a shock victory in the Goffs Tingle Cree k Sa le fiv e-y ear-ol d geldings’ maiden

Th e El usiv e Pim pe rnel ge ldin g wa s be at en by a combined 87 lengths in his two

track outings in bumpers last season, but proved to be a mu ch mo re com pe titiv e prospect for the switch to the pointing fields, making all to account for last mo nt h’s Portrush third Ballylinch by five lengths

cousin Codd

her seasonal reappearance as she travelled best to the final fence

Looking briefly vulnerable to the closing Elusive Mae when ed gin g to he r le ft under pressure, she picked up again once back on a straight line to win going away by four lengths Ha vin g be at en Wi lli e Murphy’s runner Elusive Mae in the mares’ maiden, O’Neill then joined forces with the County Carlow handler to record his fifth success of the weekend when Clonmeen landed the Cooney Furlong winner-of-one

The six-year-old was no match fo r th e improv ing Rocky’s Howya a week earlier at Rathcannon, but his connec tions found a nice opportunity to go one better as he comfort ab ly be at th e Tatte rs al ls unplaced maiden winner Inchidaly Robin by three lengths

“I ha d no in ten tion of running him because Pa King had gone to Cork, but Barry sent me a text message last night at ten o’clock asking was I going to run him,” Murphy said. “He said he thought I should, so this win is down to Barry and a text message!”

After the victory of Notice To Close in the Dromahane open, Seamus Neville completed an across-the-card double when Tennessee Titan took a big step forward from his recent non-completion at Kinsale by winning the Nitrofert & Bally walter Farms older geldings’ maiden for novice riders.

The Fame And Glory gelding made his way to the front at the home bend and from there none of his five rivals was able to reel him back as he supplied Troy Walsh with his first success of the seas on by beating Answer To Kayf by three and a half lengths

‘The fences are there to be jumped’ – drama at the last in opening races

THE first Dromahane fixture of the season almost brought new meaning to the word ‘eventful’ as the final fence played a crucial role in the first two races

In the opening Goffs Tingle Creek Sale four-year-old mares’ ma iden and Do nnc ha dh Doyle’s well-touted newcomer Theatre Native was soon posi tioned at the head of affairs in the nine-runner contest.

The Getaway-sired Theatre Native could be called the most likely winner as she jumped this third-last fence with a fivelength advantage over her toiling rivals

She went further clear from the penultimate obstacle and it appeared to be all over bar the shouting on the run to the last as she held a 15-le ng th advantage over the depleted field.

Howe ve r, there wa s an audible gasp from the crowd as Theatre Native came down at the final fence, a fall from which she emerged unscathed.

That left the route clear for the El len Do yl e- tr ai ne d newcomer Pinot Rouge and she maintained the advantage to the line under Br ian Dunleavy to beat the stayingon Alo’s Vision by two lengths

“The fences are there to be jumped, I suppose,” said Doyle’s brother James, adding that the

Star performance

The final fence may have proved her undoing, but Theatre Native was about to post a big display on her debut and looks a horse to follow closely

Vendangeur-sired Pinot Rouge, who traces back to Berties Dream and Bannow Bay, would now be offered for sale.

There was a similar story in the day’s biggest field in 13-runner Tattersalls NH fouryear-old geldings’ maiden in which the Ellemarie Holdentrained newcomer Mirazur West, a brother to Willie Mullins’ dual Grade 1 winner Ferny Hollow, made what appeared to be the decisive move by going to the front on the outer three out.

Mi ra zur We st , ha vin g blundered two out, was travel ling best in the lead with a twolen gth adv an ta ge wh en crashing out at the last. He too emerged unscathed.

Jo hn Na ll en’s Mi ne lla Double, who fell at this same fence when lying second on his debut in April in the race won by Wrappedupinmay, was left in the lead with Johnny Barry and the Shantou-sired threequarters brother to Death Duty returned with five lengths to

spare over newcomer Bally brack Wood

“He’s a tough, old-fashioned, staying-type and he’ll probably be sold now,” Nallen said of his first winner of the season, a €40,000 acquisition as a foal.

Mirazur West’s rider Derek O’Connor still featured among the winners when teaming up with Knocknagoshel handler Michael Mangan to collect the Dairygold & Pegus Horse Feeds five-year-old mares’ maiden on All About Lucy

Last season’s Nenagh debut fourth took the eye in running and she was lying a close second when fractional leader Dixies Girl and the pursuing My Reprieve fell three out.

Although she had to be ro us te d alon g br iefl y approaching the last, All About Lucy still beat Tinkerbay by three and a half lengths in the colours of John Sayers from Listowel.

Tom Feeney, out of luck on Dix ies Gir l, brou gh t the Mi ch eal Gr iffin-tr aine d seasonal debutant Giovinco with a well-timed challenge from off the pace to capture the Ornella Underwriting five year-old geldings’ maiden.

Giovinco, whose dam is a half-sister to Tell Massini and Rocky Creek, was lying a close third when falling at the last in a competitive Knockanard

race last season.

Th is time he ma de no mistake, taking the lead after the last to beat Quantum Storm by a head in the closest finish of the day.

“Tom gave him a great ride and he’s a horse who has improved a lot, mentally and physically, from last season,” Griffin said of Giovinco, who was bred by the handler’s brother Colm. “He’ll probably be sold now.”

The Seamus Neville-trained grey Notice To Close, a former 131-rated chaser who won four races on the track, went one better than on his return to hunt racing behind Cloudy Tuesday at Kinsale two weeks previously, by landing an easy frontrunning victory under Mikey O’Connor at the expense of Snow Falcon in the open.

“He was suited by the ground here and he’s back close to the form he was in a few years ago,” Neville said of the winner, who is owned by his wife Ina.

The Michael Winters-trained newcomer Churchtown Gigi, owned and part-bred by Jimmy Gordon, got on top from two out to win the Singletons SuperValu adjacent hunts maiden under Chris O’Donovan.

The mud is flying in the open lightweight won by Notice To Close at Dromahane

Dara McGill gets a winning leap from El Rio in the fiveyear-old geldings’ maiden

QUEENS GAMBLEwon the Listed Mares’ Bumper at Cheltenham on Saturday by8 lengths for Oliver Sherwood and owner/breeders Alex Frost and Edward Galvin to remain unbeaten

❝A really impressive display from the winner, hammering last year's previously unbeaten heroine in second.❞ RACING POST

Foals at Fairyhouse lastweek sold for €35,000, €25,000, €25,000, €25,000, €23,000, €23,000, €22,000, €22,000, €21,000 etc.

CHASING FIREwon his Maiden hurdle by16 lengths at Market Rasen lastThursday for OllyMurphyand Mrs DianaWhateleyto remain unbeaten ❝

CHASINGFIRE,animpressivewinnerofanIrishpoint[forDenisPaulMurphy]andlargely untroubledwhenlandingaWetherbybumperonhisRulesdebutinMarch,maintainedhis unbeatenrecordwiththeminimumoffussandlooksanexcitingrecruit.❞ RACING POST

Foals at Fairyhouse lastweek sold for €47,000, €35,000, €34,000, €30,000, €25,000, €24,000, €24,000, €21,000 etc.

KING OF KINGSFIELD won his bumper at the Down Royal Festival of Racing for Gordon Elliott and Gigginstown House Studto remain unbeaten having previouslywon a 4YO Maiden at Portrush for PaddyTurley

❝KING OF KINGSFIELD, a point winner, had the reputation and he duly delivered on this Rules debut ❞ RACING POST

Foals at Fairyhouse lastweek sold for €64,000, €52,000, €45,000, €40,000, €37,000, €36,000, €35,000, €32,000, €30,000 (x2) etc.

❝I’d be afan ofthe Monsun line. I bred Getabird [Getaway] andVadamos wasthere and hewas always a good-looking horse.❞ Pat Connell of Peria Studwho sold the top-pricedVadamos colt toTimmyHillman for €64,000

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