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Daniel King celebrates winning The Guinness Galway Hurdle Handicap (Grade 3) with Putapoundinthejar and also yesterdays Galway Plate<\/p>\nJockey Daniel King, who hails from Kilbrin in the barony of Duhallow, has enjoyed a remarkable week at the Galway Races.<\/p>\n
This afternoon he landed the \u20ac275,000 Grade 3 Guinness Galway Hurdle aboard the Tong Martin trained Putapoundinthejar, to rubber-stamp a sensational 24 hours for the talented young Cork jockey.<\/p>\n
King won the Tote Galway Plate on Wednesday, partnering the Willie Mullins-trained King Alexander, to a half a length success.\u00a0<\/p>\n
King, who is a prodigious talent was again seen to great effect in Thursday’s featured race.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a poignant twist of fate, Putapoundinthejar gave the late Michael O\u2019Sullivan his final winner at Down Royal last year in a maiden hurdle.<\/p>\n
This afternoon’s winning trainer Tony Martin landed his fifth Galway hurdle today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Afterwards he waxed lyrical about the Cork jockey.<\/p>\n
“As good a rider since the likes of Ruby Walsh.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
King was always well placed travelling well aboard the progressive six year old.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He got a dream run entering the straight and edged clear up the famous Galway hill, to win by three and a quarter lengths from Thisistheway, with Gameball and Ragmans Corner completing the places.<\/p>\n
King was overwhelmed yesterday after his iconic Plate success on King Alexander but was in control of his emotions post race today.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He reflected on a monumental twenty four hours at the Galway Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an unbelievable feeling. He won well the last day in Bellewstown but it was a step up in grade.<\/p>\n
Daniel King celebrates winning The Guinness Galway Hurdle Handicap (Grade 3) with Putapoundinthejar and also yesterdays Galway Plate<\/p>\n
“He jumped savage the whole way round, he took me into the race so easily and it was just a matter of getting a gap.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe winged the last and the gap opened up lovely.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
King paid tribute to the winning trainer with whom he’s struck up a formidable partnership.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love riding Tony\u2019s horses. I love the way he trains them and everything about it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniel is the younger brother of Connor King and hails from Kilbrin in the barony of Duhallow. King has been equally adept on the flat as well as NH.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Cloughjordan trainer Denis Hogan gave the young Cork jockey his first-ever winner as a sixteen year-old on Malbas in Dundalk.<\/p>\n
Prior to the heady highs of Galway this week – King’s best moments on the NH scene came for his brother Connor landing Navan\u2019s Grade 2 William Hill Bet Builder Ten Up Novice Chase in February aboard the JP McManus acquisition Oscars Brother.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He’d been formerly owned by the King family\u2019s Mak King Racing Syndicate, Oscars Brother had also won the similarly-graded Florida Pearl Chase last November. He was purchased by JP McManus before Christmas.<\/p>\n
That Navan success was only Daniel’s second ride for JP McManus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Daniel King\u2019s burgeoning reputation has escalated rapidly in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 21-year-old from Kilbrin was also seen to great effect here on the heavily backed Frankie John on Tuesday evening.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That success rather aptly came for trainer Denis Hogan who gave King his first ever winner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jockey Daniel King, who hails from Kilbrin in the barony of Duhallow, has enjoyed a remarkable week at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[243294,61,60,112],"class_list":["post-576605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cork-racing","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576605","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=576605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}