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Watching Killarney on the TV last week had me reminiscing about the twenty plus years I spent on the racing circuit, travelling up and down the country reporting on the action.
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I'm from Ballynoe, Co Cork and I rode plenty of ponies when I was younger. I had plenty of success pony racing and partnered 50 winners. I did two full seasons pony racing and plenty of lads that I rode winners for are now training on the track like Maurice Ahern and Aidan Melia, and they are doing very well at the moment which is great to see. I was champion jockey in Dingle in 2024, and I rode five winners for Maurice then. It was then nice to ride winners for him on the track. I rode a nice winner for him in Galway (Perry Mason, last October) and I rode a winner on one of the first days at the Curragh this season (Perry Mason, March).
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By Shane Redmond - GARNACHO (1) can again score at the main expense of Costacurta. The pair were separated by two and a half lengths when first and second respectively in a novice chase at Wexford late last month where the winner looked to have a little in hand on his chasing debut. He can confirm those placings on 4lb worse terms. Both horses are having their first runs in a handicap chase now and might have an edge of the more exposed Milan Forth who ran nice races over this course and distance in May and again last month.
