Another Cork 1-2 as Bridies wins 1st race in over 3 and a half years

Following on from the success of a County Cork trained horse thirty five minutes earlier in the feature, we had another local 1-2 when Bridies Boy (25/1) beat Overbury Prince (10/1) in the Buy Online And Save On Admission Tickets Beginners Chase.

Robert Tyner 's Midnight Stroll upstaged Mick Winters' Chatham Street Lad in the preceding www.corkracecourse.ie Handicap Hurdle and at the end of the beginners chase John Joe Walsh's Bridies Boy prevailed by three and a quarter lengths from Terence O'Brien's Overbury Prince.

Ambrose McCurtin did the steering on eleven-year-old Bridies Boy and Walsh's son Brendan said: "He did it well and he just wants a staying trip. It was a low grade race but around Tramore (on New Year's Day) it was sharp for him. He wants a good galloping track and the fences were a job with him and he jumped and kept going away.

"He is 11 and we put blinkers on today (first time). We'll look for a low grade three mile chase next and he likes nice ground.

"His owners Jimmy and Mary O'Callaghan, from Doneraile, also bred him themselves and it is part of the family with them and they have another mare coming along now."

The Stewards fined C. O'Keeffe, trainer, €350 for lodging a passport in respect of Kilbarry Calling, in which the vaccinations did not conform with the provisions of Rule 91. The Stewards ordered the withdrawal of Kilbarry Calling in accordance with the provisions of Rule 90.

The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board Veterinary Officer reported to the Stewards that Glenabo Bridge trained by Oliver McKiernan was found to have blood at both nostrils possibly as a result of the fall.

(TW & EM)