Jack Cleary rode four winners for the Master of Ballydoyle, while Ronan O\u2019Brien was in the saddle for the other two.<\/p>\n
Cleary got the ball rolling in the opening Irish EBF Fillies\u2019 Maiden as 4\/6 favourite Amelia Earhart put in a classy display to beat Chasing Paradise by seven lengths in the one-mile contest.<\/p>\n
Whelan was on board 15\/2 shot Ex Animo as O\u2019Brien quickly doubled up in the Irish EBF (C&G) Maiden, showing tremendous resolve to beat Sharkeyboy by a head.<\/p>\n
Christmas Day took the third race on the card, the Group 3 Mongey Communications Eyrefield Stakes, with Cleary in the saddle. The 13\/2 chance kept on well in the closing stages to beat A Boy Named Susie by a short head.<\/p>\n
Whelan got his second winner in the following race as 4\/7 market leader Minerva asserted in the final furlong to beat stablemate Garden Party by three and a half lengths with another O\u2019Brien inmate Take A Bow back in third.<\/p>\n
Jack Cleary was back in the winners\u2019 enclosure following the Group 3 Killavullan Stakes as 13\/8 shot Dorset overcame stablemate Daytona (6\/4f) by half a length.<\/p>\n
The jockey completed his four-timer in the final race of the day, the Irish Stallions Farms EBF Nursery Handicap, as 13\/8 favourite River Ara finished strongly to beat Iamimmaculate by half a length.<\/p>\n
Wexford native O\u2019Brien also tasted success across the water on Saturday as Mission Central, ridden by Christophe Soumillon, won the Qipco British Champions Day Two-Year-Old Conditions Stakes at Ascot.<\/p>\n
The 5\/1 chance was always prominent, took up the running over a furlong out and kept on well to beat Ardisia by half a length.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Brien had a winner at the Curragh on Thursday as the Wayne Lordan-ridden 2\/1 market leader Appeared saw off the challenge of Pornahapple by half a length in a maiden over a mile and a half trip.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, P.J. McDonald rode a winner at Newcastle on Tuesday of last week, partnering Michael Herrington\u2019s 9\/2 chance The Real Mckay to a one and a half-length success ahead of Yellow Lemons in a six-furlong handicap.<\/p>\n
The Taghmon jockey got another one on the board at Southwell on Thursday as Ed Bethell\u2019s 11\/10 favourite Rogue Citation just hung on to beat Bushwhacker by a short head.<\/p>\n
Conor Stone-Walsh played his part as international head linemaker Gavin Cromwell landed a double at Punchestown on Tuesday, 48 hours after his groundbreaking success with Stumptown in the Velka Pardubicka in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n
Stone-Walsh was on board as Cromwell took the three-year-old hurdle with the strong 100\/30 chance Secret Force which led just after the final hurdle before skipping clear to beat Bill Durkan\u2019s two-time hurdles winner Hopes Are High, an 11\/4 shot, by an easy six and a half lengths for owner Jimmy Fyffe.<\/p>\n
Velka Pardubicka hero Keith Donoghue completed the trainer\u2019s double when he partnered the 1\/2 favourite Reiki Revolution to land the two and a half-mile maiden hurdle.<\/p>\n
Ridden by Eoin Staples for trainer Paul Flynn, The Truant recorded a ready success in the two-mile handicap hurdle. Owned by the Thirteen Apostles Racing Syndicate, the 17\/2 chance led at the final hurdle to beat Charles Byrnes\u2019 5\/1 shot Eastmore by a length and a quarter.<\/p>\n
Monksgrange apprentice Gabriella Hill rode her fourth winner in all and her second at the Curragh when partnering the Henry de Bromhead-trained Trubshaw to a clearcut win in the 14-furlong handicap on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The 11\/1 chance led early in the race and again before halfway before racing clear over a furlong out to beat Se\u00e1n Byrne\u2019s 12\/1 shot Quiz Test by three and a half lengths.<\/p>\n
Joseph O\u2019Brien sent out his fourth winner of the week as the J.J. Slevin-ridden Talk The Talk landed the four-year-old maiden hurdle at Limerick on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Owned by Simon Munir and Isaac Souede, the 9\/4 chance led at the final hurdle to beat the Eric McNamara-trained Starting Fifteen, ridden by Se\u00e1n Flanagan, by a length.<\/p>\n
Flanagan and trainer McNamara went a place better with Millstream Lady to win the near three-mile Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cail\u00edn \u00c1lainn Mares Hurdle.<\/p>\n
Owned by Eamon Leahy, Seamus O\u2019Riordan and Edward Hayes, the 7\/2 shot headed Liam Kenny\u2019s front-running 2\/1 chance World Of Fortunes on the run to the final hurdle to win by half a length, the pair all of 15 lengths clear of Yvonne Latta\u2019s 8\/1 shot Thisistheway in third place.<\/p>\n
Jordan Gainford won the two-mile handicap hurdle on the Adrian Sheils-owned Matt Connor. Trained by Philip Dempsey, the 9\/2 chance came with a late run and scored by a neck from fellow fast-finisher Footstepstoglory, a 25\/1 shot for Harry Kelly.<\/p>\n
There is racing in Wexford on Sunday, October 26, with the first off at 1.03 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jack Cleary rode four winners for the Master of Ballydoyle, while Ronan O\u2019Brien was in the saddle for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[93197,3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-217349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-dave-devereux","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}