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Click here<\/a> to add us to your Google preferred sources or find out more here<\/a><\/p>\n A three-month wait for rain paid off in spectacular fashion for Danny McLoughlin<\/a> when Magny Cours<\/a> justified his patient approach by easily winning the Coolmore Stud Little Big Bear Stakes under Ben Coen.<\/p>\n It was a second Group 3 for Ireland\u2019s youngest trainer, who won his first with Duckadilly earlier in the summer and only sent out his first runner in March 2024.<\/p>\n Magny Cours was subjected to extensive pre-race vet checks before her disappointing effort in the Irish 1,000 Guineas in May, and had been off the course since. But the Awtaad filly already had Group 3-placed form and she excelled on the yielding ground to win for the first time at 9-1.<\/p>\n \u201cThis win is massive,\u201d said McLoughlin. \u201cIt was a long wait on the weather, but it was more than worth it. She put that to bed very professionally. She\u2019s a good-sized filly now and I\u2019d say she\u2019ll really come into herself from now until the rest of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n Now McLoughlin is aiming for Group 1 glory on Arc weekend with his stable star. He said: \u201cShe\u2019s entered in the Prix de la Foret and it ticks a lot of boxes. I\u2019d say it\u2019s worth taking a chance over there, so it could be an exciting end to the year with a bit of luck.\u201d<\/p>\n Byrne bridges 30-year gap<\/strong><\/p>\n They were showing new Father Ted episodes the last time Michael Byrne landed a Pattern race, but Likedbymike<\/a> brought the big-race drought stretching back to 1996 to an end when winning the Abergwaun Stakes.<\/p>\n Conor O\u2019Dwyer rode Gentle Buck to a Grade 3 victory over hurdles way back when, and this time it was the six-time champion jockey Colin Keane who had the honour of steering the 11-4 favourite to a first Listed success for the Cahir-based trainer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Likedbymike had gone close in plenty of valuable races this year and Byrne said: \u201cThis means everything. We’ve only two horses to run and we ran both of them today. Breeze-ups are our main game.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a fillies\u2019 Listed race at the Curragh at the start of next month, so that\u2019s probably where we\u2019ll go next. This doesn\u2019t happen very often to us!\u201d<\/p>\n Another Foret bound<\/strong><\/p>\n Magny Cours could meet a fellow Cork winner in France as Michael O\u2019Callaghan is minded to send his impressive 7f conditions race winner Bamako Beach<\/a> to Longchamp as well.<\/p>\n Top-rated of the eight-runner field on the back of his seventh in the Irish 2,000 Guineas in May, the colt ran green in the final furlong but overcame a marked drift to the stands’ side rail to score with authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s a good horse and one we\u2019ve always liked,\u201d said O\u2019Callaghan. \u201cThat was a good race taking on older horses, but he couldn\u2019t have done it much easier. He\u2019s still a big baby. He had only one run as a two-year-old and he finds things very easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe have the Foret in our heads. He\u2019s done everything we could have hoped for, so we\u2019ll take a shot now.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more reports here<\/strong><\/p>\n ‘He gritted it out well’ – Jm Jungle back to form in Beverley Bullet as he sets up Curragh Group 1 assignment<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘She’s certainly one to dream about’ – Light Of Dawn a nice boost for James Doyle after rider’s trip to Deauville is thwarted<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n Britain\u2019s youngest trainer left ‘ecstatic’ after saddling her first two-year-old winner<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n
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