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Donal Murphy

Donal Murphy

Dinero eases to 5th career success

Mon 24th Jun 2013, 20:01

Cerveza Dinero (inside) jumps the last ahead of Miss Penny PincherCerveza Dinero (inside) jumps the last ahead of Miss Penny Pincher
© Photo Healy Racing

Cerveza Dinero bounced back to form, as he recorded his fifth career success in the Hurley Family Handicap Hurdle for jockey/trainer Denis Hogan.

The nine-year-old son of Karinga Bay last scored at Limerick in July of 2012 and he since ran eight times without success, the last six of which he was well beaten in.

Backed this morning from 9s into 5s, he eased on track from 11/2 out to 7/1.

Always prominent, he was on terms approaching the third last and soon led. He was joined at the last by Miss Penny Pincher (15/2) under Barry Geraghty, but he raced away from that rival on the run-in, scoring by four and three parts of a length at the line. Evesham Star was sent off the 6/1 favourite under Rob Jones for Charles Byrnes and she finished half a length back in third while Ussius was a further three and a half lengths away in fourth under Ben Dalton for Conor O’Dwyer at 14/1.

Denis Hogan said afterwards: "I didn’t think he’d win as easy as that. He is an impossible horse to get fit and I even did a fast piece of work over a mile with him this morning or else he would have been a bit stuffy coming here this evening.

"I had blinkers on him the last day but I don’t think he likes them and he travelled sweeter today in the cheekpieces.

"The winning owners (the Winonesoon Syndicate) are mainly from around my area, the Nenagh, Toomevara area."

Additional reporting by Alan Magee

1st
7/1
Tote €9.50 €3.70
2nd
4.75L
15/2
€1.60
3rd
0.5L
6/1Fav
€1.02
4th
3.5L
14/1
€3.70
About Donal Murphy
Donal graduated from Maynooth University in 2010 with a BBS in Equine Business and since attained a diploma in Sports Journalism from Dublin Business School. He holds a variety of roles in the horse racing industry, reporting for the Press Association and p2p.ie, while also working for SIS and the Tote. From Wexford, he is a keen runner and has completed over 100 parkruns at various locations around the country.