born and raised near the Kerry track and has fond memories of visiting as a child<\/a>, but surprisingly did not sit in the saddle at the venue until Tuesday evening on the second day of their annual festival.<\/p>\nKillarney’s raucous crowd roared in delight as Murphy returned to the winner\u2019s enclosure after powering Joseph O\u2019Brien\u2019s 1-5 odds-on favourite Celtic Motif to victory by six lengths in the opening Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Maiden.<\/p>\n
After making a winning start aboard Celtic Motif, who effortlessly made all in the one-mile opener, Murphy said: “It\u2019s nice to win on her. She was a standout in the race, she had good form before she went to America for Joseph and had very good form over in America.<\/p>\n
“It was great that she won. Thank you to Killarney racecourse and everyone that has come. They put in an awful lot of effort.”<\/p>\n
Fresh off the back of his 2,558-1 five-timer at Windsor on Monday, the 30-year-old continued his rich vein of form by partnering Micahel\u2019s O\u2019Callaghan\u2019s Saga Gaga at a price of 3-1 in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Fillies Handicap.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s amazing. She was bred by Danny Leane, a local man who lives at the top of the road here,” said O\u2019Callaghan.<\/p>\n
“It was his dream to have a winner at Killarney. She was his first ever winner when she won at Gowran and now for her to win on home soil with Oisin Murphy riding her, it\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n
“Oisin came in and said she\u2019s still plenty raw, she enjoyed the trip and enjoyed everything. He said she is a stakes filly.<\/p>\n
“To win that against older horses off a mark of 90 was a good performance.<\/p>\n
“She\u2019ll probably get a small break and we might try and look for a bit of black-type before the year is out.”<\/p>\n
Dermot Weld\u2019s Wild Sapphire (6-4) battled gamely to hold off Ken Condon\u2019s Sron Na Caise in the Hotel Killarney Maiden.<\/p>\n
Cause I Like You (100-30), trained by Michael Mulvany, denied Murphy\u2019s mount Zheleznaya Dama by a length and three-quarters in the Irish Examiner Handicap, while Gillian Scott\u2019s Red Hugh O\u2019Donnell (33-1) survived a stewards\u2019 enquiry to win at the this meeting for second successive season in the Killarney Plaza Hotel & Spa Handicap.<\/p>\n
Chris Hayes also completed a double aboard Gaoth Chuil (15-8) in the Rose Hotel Handicap, while William Durkan\u2019s Eagle Fang (15-8) secured the concluding Thorn Plant Hire (Q.R.) Maiden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oisin Murphy enjoyed a rewarding homecoming after picking up two winners on his first appearance as a jockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-550242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}