Super Racing Sunday at Tipperary
Philip Fenton won the second division of the two and a half-mile handicap hurdle with the Brian Hayes-ridden Lispopple at Roscommon on Monday.
Owned and bred by Michael Fagan, the 22/1 chance led after the final hurdle and pulled clear to score by five and a half lengths from the Michael Flannery-trained Bowgate Street.
The John Ryan-trained Kilashee ran out the 16/1 winner of the mares’ handicap chase over two miles and five furlongs. The Bitview Partnership-owned nine-year-old made all the running under Daniel King to beat John McConnell’s Bella Bliss.
Cahir trainer Michael Byrne saddled the widest-margin winner at Cork on Tuesday where the two-year-old Likedbymike won the opening five-furlong maiden. Ridden by Billy Lee, the 13/2 chance led over a furlong from the finish and pulled away to score by an easy four and a quarter lengths from the Jessica Harrington-trained favourite Passing Phase, ridden by Shane Foley.
The father and son team of Andy & Andrew Slattery took the six-furlong fillies’ handicap with the Dreamers And Believers Syndicate-owned Staysound Susie. The 5/2 joint-favourite had plenty in hand as she scored by two and three-parts of a length from the Edward and Patrick Harty-trained Tai Tam Bay.
Fethard apprentice Sam Coen rode his second winner when partnering Arch Enemy to win the 12-furlong Johnny Kierans Memorial Handicap at Bellewstown on Wednesday. The 7/1 chance came through to lead over a furlong from the finish and she went clear to score by two and a half lengths from the Ross O'Sullivan-trained Beautiful Chaos in the colours of the Black Steel Square Syndicate. Sam’s brother Jake was a winner on the same horse at Ballinrobe in June 2022.
Aidan O'Brien and Wayne Lordan shared a 4/1 winner as the three-year-old North Africa landed the 12-furlong maiden. She made much of the running to win by a comfortable two and three-parts of a length from Joseph O'Brien’s favourite Radar Ahead.
Wayne Hassett played his part as Joseph O'Brien sent out three winners at Bellewstown on Thursday. Dylan Browne McMonagle rode two of them, landing the opening eight-furlong nursery handicap on 9/2 chance Baltray Lady and the second division of the Mary Rogers Memorial Handicap on odds-on favourite Prairie Angel.
Hassett’s success came on the 11/10 favourite Miss Tapley in the fillies and mares’ maiden over eight furlongs. Owned by Edelle Logan, she led before the furlong-pole and scored by a length and three-quarters from Mick Mulvany’s Storm Averted.
Johnny Levins struck with the Damien Kelly-owned Private Officer in the three-year-old handicap over eight furlongs. Ridden by Joey Sheridan, the 7/1 chance didn’t get the clearest of runs passing the two-furlong pole but he ran on well when seeing daylight inside the final furlong to pip the Ciaran Murphy-trained Finsceal Annie, ridden by Jamie Powell, by a neck.
Narrow runners-up with My Girl Sioux earlier on the card, Andy Slattery and his son Andrew went a place better to land the opening division of the 12-furlong Mary Rogers Memorial Handicap with Preparations. The 16/1 chance made most of the running to beat Mark Fahey’s Noble Andy by two and three-parts of a length, a 22nd winner of the season for the successful jockey, one more than his tally for last year.
The final race at Clonmel on Thursday went to trainer Mark Molloy. His 6/1 chance Quint Major, owned by the Quint Major Syndicate, scored a two and a half-length victory under Harry Swan in the concluding bumper. The six-year-old was chased home by Declan Queally’s favourite Artic Lane.
Swan again beat fellow amateur rider Declan Queally into second place when he won the listed mares’ bumper at Gowran Park on Friday on the Jessica Harrington-trained 25/1 chance Aruntothequeen. Owned by Joe O’Flaherty and Mark Phelan, the five-year-old will be aimed at a two and a half-mile maiden hurdle after her convincing three-length success over the Gavin Cromwell-trained even money favourite Mozzies Sister.
Aidan O'Brien landed his first success of the weekend as the Ronan Whelan-ridden Right And True scored a comfortable success in the listed seven-furlong race at Dundalk on Friday. A 13/2 chance, she raced up with the pace and asserted inside the final furlong to win by a length and a quarter from the Donnacha O'Brien-trained Comanche Brave, with Bernard Shaw, the Wayne Lordan-ridden odds-on favourite, next across the line to give the champion trainer a 1-3 in the race. It was Whelan’s 50th winner of the season, his best-ever tally.
Carrick-On-Suir trainer Kevin Coleman landed the seven-furlong maiden with the 85/40 favourite Black Storm which was ridden by Seamie Heffernan. The three-year-old, owned by the Roving Swan Partnership, scored by a length from the Kieran Cotter-trained Mags.
Aidan O'Brien landed an opening race double at the Curragh on Saturday. Both winners were ridden by Wayne Lordan who took the seven-furlong maiden for two-year-olds on the 9/4 chance Expanded which got up to beat his own stable companion First Wave, ridden by Jack Cleary, by a neck, before the odds-on favourite Giselle held off the late surge of the Kevin Coleman-trained The Palace Girl by three-parts of a length to win the juvenile fillies’ maiden over the same distance.
Ridden by Georgie Benson for trainer Denis Hogan, the 5/1 chance Polemon won the lady qualified riders’ handicap in good style. Owned by the Premier Racing Club, the five-year-old led a furlong from the finish to beat Ciaran Murphy’s outsider Burren Song by a length and three-parts.
Easily the tightest finish at Tipperary on Sunday came in the concluding bumper which went the way of the Peter Fahey-trained Hillhead Runner. Ridden by Moyne’s David Doyle, the 22/1 chance made all the running and held on by a nose from the Pat Doyle-trained Shadows Of My Mind, the Harry Swan-ridden favourite.
PRIX DE L’ARC DE TRIOMPHE
Galway’s Rossa Ryan hit the big time when partnering the Ralph Beckett-trained Bluestocking to win the Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe at Paris-Longchamp on Sunday.
The 5/1 chance overhauled Aidan O'Brien’s front-runner Los Angeles in the straight and stayed on to beat the locally-trained Aventure by a length and a quarter with the same distance back to Los Angeles and Ryan Moore in third place.
It was a seventh win in the race for owners Juddmonte who first struck with Dancing Brave in 1985 and 24-year-old Ryan became the first Irish jockey to win since Michael Kinane on John Oxx’s Sea the Stars in 2009.
At Longchamp on Saturday, Aidan O'Brien dominated with a remarkable four-timer. Kyprios became his winning-most Group 1 scorer when landing the Prix du Cadran for a second time, the three-year-old Illinois won the Group 2 Prix Chaudenay, Mount Kilimanjaro won a valuable sales’ race while Grateful took the Group 1 Prix de Royalliue.
All four winner winners were ridden by Ryan Moore, but it was Christophe Soumillon who gave O'Brien his winner at the course on Sunday when partnering Camille Pissarro in the Group 1 Prix Jean-Luc Lagardere. At Newmarket on Saturday, Colin Keane rode his first Group 1 winner in Britain when taking the Sun Chariot Stakes on the David Menuisier-trained Tamfana.
Upcoming Meetings
Navan – Wednesday, October 9 (First Race 1.51pm)
Thurles – Thursday, October 10 (First Race 1.55pm)
Tramore – Thursday, October 10 (First Race 2.05pm)
Downpatrick – Friday, October 11 (First Race 2.15pm)
Dundalk – Friday, October 11 (First Race 5.25pm)
Fairyhouse – Saturday, October 12 (First Race 1.40pm)
Naas – Saturday, October 12 (First Race 2.00pm)
Naas – Sunday, October 13 (First Race 1.05pm)
Cork – Sunday, October 14 (First Race 2.00pm)