Ryan Moore wins Lenabane Stakes Horses for Courses

Punters got off to a good start in Lenebane on Tuesday with Profit Refused winning for 91-year-old trainer Kevin Prendergast, joint owner with Jackie Bolger, ridden by Chris Hayes by 1¾l from Megarry.

Gypsum Woman made two up for favourite backers when she won the second for Ger Lyons and Gary Carroll by 5½l from Danvers Gold.

In the first division of the Apprentices Handicap, top weight Barnhill Rose just held on by a short head and a head from Emorcee and Pallasmore Lass. The winner is trained by Denis Hogan and was ridden by Siobhan Rutledge.

In the second division, Rutledge was denied a double when Manhattan Dandy ridden by Robert Whearty beat Leviosa by ½l. Ger Lyons and Gary Carroll doubled up in the Dermot Hughes Car Sales Handicap with Mr King who beat Picture Of A City by ½l.

The Sweeney Oil Handicap went to the Peter Fahey-trained Soaring Monarch who finished ½ l, a neck and the same in front of Chavajod and Kodiac Prince.

In the Listed EBF Lenebane Stakes, jockey Ryan Moore paid his first visit to the Roscommon track and his first visit to its winner’s enclosure as Espionage trained by Aidan O’Brien won from Young Ireland and Jackfinbar by 1½l and ½l.

The final race, The Colm Markey MEP Supporting Roscommon Racecourse Maiden was won by the Gordon Elliott trained Glan in the hands of Declan McDonagh. Roscommon race again on Monday with a national hunt card and it is also Ladies’ Day.

Action at The Curragh

On Friday, at the Curragh the Tom Cleary trained Kodiac Prince, following up his recent win at Gowran Park, made it two in a row winning with victory in the nine-furlong handicap at the Curragh. Ridden by his son Rory the 6-Y-O took it up at the furlong marker and went on to beat Overheer by 2¼l.

Saturday’s feature the Pretty Polly Stakes went for export to the George Boughey-trained Via Sistina ridden by Jamie Spencer beating Hugh Morrison’s Stay Alert by 2l. The connections of the runner-up have lodged an appeal. There was a steward’s inquiry in which Spencer got a six-day suspension for careless riding.

On Sunday, Rathowen trainer Adrian Murray kept up his good run when

by Tom Red

Royal Ascot second Bucanero Fuerte won the Group 2 Railway Stakes. The Irish Derby was won by Aidan O’Brien for the 15th time with Augustine Rodin completing an Irish/English Derby double under Ryan Moore. For O’Brien it was his 100th European Classic win.

This weekend…

Racing today is at both Bellewstown and Tipperary. Bellewstown is the first day of a three-day festival with racing on the flat starting at 4.25 pm. Tomorrow evening racing is again on the flat away at 4.10 pm and on Saturday it is the turn of national hunt racing at 4.55 pm. Tipperary races over the jumps on Thursday, off at 5.10 pm and features the Grade 3 Kevin McManus Grimes Hurdle. Wexford also features national hunt fare on Friday starting at 5.05 pm and flat racing on Saturday takes place at Naas, away at 2.10 pm. Racing returns to the west on Sunday at Sligo with a national hunt card off at 2 pm, and in Roscommon on Monday, featuring the SuperValu County Roscommon Ladies’ Day Novice Hurdle, starting at 5 pm.

Aidan O’Brien’s 3-Y-O Paddington takes on the older Emily Upjohn in Saturday’s Coral-Eclipse at Sandown. The three-year-old Irish 2000 Guineas winner will be stepping up to ten furlongs while Emily Upjohn will be dropping back from a mile and a half after landing the Coronation Cup last month. The 3-Y-O is getting a 7lbs weight for age allowance with the 4-Y-O, and this could swing it in his favour.

Competition Corner

Paul Finnegan, Ballygar, Genna

McDonagh, Headford and Brendan Green, all knew Mostahdaf won the Prince Of Wales Stakes at Royal Ascot and won tickets for Roscommon on Monday for Ladies’ Day. Last chance to win tickets for Kilbeggan on the 14th, Midlands National Day. Which horse won the Irish Derby last week? Answers please on a postcard to The Roscommon People, Abbey Street, Roscommon or by email to tomred17@gmail.com by 5 pm on Wednesday, July 12th