{"id":661368,"date":"2026-10-21T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661368\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T21:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T21:04:18","slug":"meades-navan-win-puts-him-on-verge-of-3000-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/661368\/","title":{"rendered":"Meade\u2019s Navan win puts him on verge of 3,000 milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792616657_782_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Wynette (Adam Caffrey, left) after winning the 7f fillies maiden from Nautic Star in a tight finish.Navan.Photo: Patrick McCann\/Racing Post<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-preamble\" itemprop=\"description\">Wynette takes Kilberry Fillies Maiden under Adam Caffrey<\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:26 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:29 PM\n      <\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Castletown racehorse trainer Noel Meade is on the brink of a major career milestone after Wynette won at Navan today under Adam Caffrey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The multiple champion trainer is now just one victory away from joining an elite band to saddle 3,000 winners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Meade took out his licence aged 19 in 1970. Tu Va was the first horse in his care and he rode him to his first winner as a trainer in 1971 at Wexford. His stables in Castletown are named in honour of the horse that got him started all those years ago.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792616657_789_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Castletown trainer Noel Meade.<br \/>\n                          Photo by<br \/>\n          Patrick McCann<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The trainer came to widespread attention in 1978 when Sweet Mint won the Cork and Orrery Stakes, the forerunner to what is now the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes, at Royal Ascot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">He gradually switched his attention to the jumps scene and did so extremely successfully. He has been Ireland\u2019s champion National Hunt trainer on seven occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Dozens of Grade 1 winners have emerged from Meade\u2019s yard over the years, including the likes of Road To Respect, Harchibald, Go Native and Cockney Lad et al. He also won the Irish Grand National in 2002 with The Bunny Boiler.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792616658_101_imengine.public.prod.cmg.infomaker.io.jpeg\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Wynette (Adam Caffrey, left) after winning the 7f fillies maiden from Nautic Star in a tight finish at Navan today. Photo: Patrick McCann\/Racing Post<br \/>\n                          Photo by<br \/>\n          Patrick McCann<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">He has trained the winners of seven races at the Cheltenham Festival, most recently with The Mourne Rambler in the Grade 1 Weatherbys Champion Bumper this year under Colin Keane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Helvic Dream provided Meade with his first Group 1 winner on the Flat in the 2021 Tattersalls Gold Cup at The Curragh. The same horse won for the Listed Ballymore Handicap Hurdle for him at Listowel in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Meade also landed the Grade 1 Savills Chase at Leopardstown\u2019s Christmas Festival last year with Affordale Fury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Only Willie Mullins, Aidan O\u2019Brien and Dermot Weld are active Irish trainers to have trained more winners.<\/p>\n<p>\n    Published:<br \/>\n    Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:26 PM\n  <\/p>\n<p>\n        Last updated:<br \/>\n        Wed 21 Oct 2026, 6:29 PM\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wynette (Adam Caffrey, left) after winning the 7f fillies maiden from Nautic Star in a tight finish.Navan.Photo: Patrick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-661368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661368","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=661368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}