{"id":424002,"date":"2025-09-14T15:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424002\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T15:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T15:32:19","slug":"foley-lands-big-priced-winner-at-the-irish-champions-festival-horse-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/424002\/","title":{"rendered":"Foley lands big priced winner at the Irish Champions Festival &#8211; Horse Racing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Day 2 of the Irish Champions Festival at the Curragh got under way with a huge shock as Pat Foley saddled Tango Flare to land the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Bold Lad Handicap at odds of 50\/1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A son of the late Tom Foley, who stewarded the career of National Hunt legend Danoli, the Bagenalstown trainer is hoping to build his Flat string and scoring in a \u20ac150,000 Premier Handicap on the second day of Irish Champions Festival should aid that process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tango Flare was third in this race last year and with the predicted levels of rain not materialising, was able to put his best foot forward under Luke McAteer to deny the Charles O\u2019Brien-trained eight-year-old top weight and eight-time course winner Big Gossey (22\/1), who had to settle for the silver medal for the second time in three renewals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3809053_2_articleinline_inpho_02790199.jpg\" alt=\"Luke McAteer onboard Tango Flare wins the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Bold Lad Sprint Handicap Photo: \u00a9INPHO\/Laszlo Geczo\" title=\"Luke McAteer onboard Tango Flare wins the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Bold Lad Sprint Handicap Photo: \u00a9INPHO\/Laszlo Geczo\" class=\"card-img\"\/>Luke McAteer onboard Tango Flare wins the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Bold Lad Sprint Handicap Photo: \u00a9INPHO\/Laszlo Geczo<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI was very worried about the ground, if the forecast had been right,\u201d Foley revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cJim (McSharry, owner) rang this morning and we were wondering whether we\u2019d run at all. But we said if we don\u2019t run at all, what are we gonna do as it\u2019s only going to get softer (for the rest of the year)?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHe was in off eight pounds lighter than last year when he was third. He ran a cracker in it last year to finish third and we were hoping he\u2019d put his best foot forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe only have a handful of Flat horses. We\u2019re known as a National Hunt yard but I\u2019d love to be busier in the summer and this won\u2019t do us any harm.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Day 2 of the Irish Champions Festival at the Curragh got under way with a huge shock as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4107],"tags":[1071,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-424002","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\/115203378368625783","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424002","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=424002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}