Clonmel hosted an eight-race card on Wednesday and Shane Foley dominated proceedings with a near 44-1 treble but Japanese jockey Ryusei Sakai was out with the washing on his only ride and will be hoping for much better luck when he returns to Leopardstown to ride last year\u2019s third, Shin Emperor, in the Irish Champion Stakes.<\/p>\n
To start Foley\u2019s fine evening, So Golden got off the mark with a convincing display in the Slievenamon Maiden. Perhaps a shade disappointing in Tramore, following a most promising debut, she bounced back in style and when she got the better of longtime leader Coul Dreamer, she won with a little in hand.<\/p>\n
Said winning trainer Ken Condon: \u201cShane had ridden her the first day and she had put up a nice effort. I thought she ran solid enough at Tramore but today we thought we\u2019d give her rider a bit more of a chance and not necessarily lead. The race worked out well enough and she went to the line strong.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s the second horse Nicky and Catherine (Hartery) have had with us and the first one to run, so it\u2019s great. Nicky bred Laws Of Indices, which was a smart horse for us, and he\u2019s had to be patient with this filly. Since she\u2019s come to us, she\u2019s been straightforward and it\u2019s great that she\u2019s won.\u201d<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to Irish Champions Festival, Condon reported Queen Of Thunder in fine fettle in advance of her run in the Group 1 Coolmore America Justify Matron Stakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s in great form and should get some cut in the ground, which she enjoys. She\u2019ll be a big price,but Jaber (Abdullah, owner) is very sporting.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has come out of Tipperary really well and when they\u2019re on a bit of a roll and they\u2019re flowing, there\u2019s no point stopping. She had a long time off but I\u2019m hoping she will stay in training next year. She\u2019ll be a big price on Saturday but I\u2019m hopeful she will run a big race.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The form of Iron Fist\u2019s victory in Killarney received a boost when runner-up Hellorhighwather won on Tuesday at Galway and the winner added further substance to it by following up in the Knocklofty Handicap. Jessica Harrington\u2019s progressive gelding gave Foley leg two of three, and he had little more than half an hour to wait to complete his treble, which he did aboard Chou Chou in the St Patrick\u2019s Well Handicap.<\/p>\n
Eamonn O\u2019Connell\u2019s four-year-old had a good buckle with market leader Warazam but found plenty to shade the verdict.<\/p>\n
The Clonmel Racecourse Supporters\u2019 Club Fillies\u2019 Maiden got the eight-race card up and running and Its All Peachy, trained by Michael O\u2019Callaghan and ridden by Jamie Powell, took over from favourite Tswalu with two furlongs to go and won quite readily.<\/p>\n
Jockey Joey Sheridan is enjoying a great season and winner number 25, which edged him ahead of his previous best, came courtesy of Justenzia in the Suir Blueway Handicap. The filly, having just her second run for Denis Hogan, led early in the straight and battled on well to keep Miss Americana at bay.<\/p>\n
Shoda wasn\u2019t winning out of turn when taking the Tipperary Perpetual Cup for trainer Joseph O\u2019Brien. She travelled sweetly to lead halfway up the straight but Dylan Browne McMonagle, who leads the jockeys\u2019 championship, had to be at his strongest to keep Not Just Any Eagle at bay.<\/p>\n
Two divisions of the John Thomas McNamara Series Qualified Riders\u2019 Handicap completed the eight-race card and The Mediator too the first division in good style. Trained by Gordon Elliott, ridden by Josh Halford, and led up by Tara Moneypenny, who rode him to finish fourth in the Pat Smullen Cancer Trials Ireland Charity Race late last month at the Curragh, he went a couple clear close home and readily held the fast-finishing Rich Belief.<\/p>\n
The second division marked a significant point in the career of jockey Jack Martin as he earned the first winner of his career aboard the Joseph Murray-trained Make Good.<\/p>\n
\u201cDelighted. I\u2019ve been in this game a long time now, not riding, but Dad (Pat) is a trainer, and it means a lot to be able to do this,\u201d said an emotional Martin. \u201cI ride out for Finbarr Hand, and he uses Joey\u2019s gallops every day, so that\u2019s how I know Joey.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe horse had really good form in younger days, and gets three miles really well, so I had no problem going forward on him. I couldn\u2019t believe they weren\u2019t coming to me three out, and I just tried to keep him going from there \u2013 and thank God he did. It could be waiting a while for the next, but it\u2019s great to get one out of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clonmel hosted an eight-race card on Wednesday and Shane Foley dominated proceedings with a near 44-1 treble but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-416518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-racing","8":"tag-racing","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115187232642491992","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416518","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=416518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}