Injury after injury doesn't stop Kennedy

His younger brother Jack was on the shorter-priced My Manekineko (eventually placed 7th), but injury plagued Paddy Kennedy showed them all the way home in the Follow Gowran Park On Facebook Handicap Hurdle aboard Paul Fahey's 8/1 chance Do Try Dolly

County Kerry 5Ib claimer Kennedy's last win came aboard Jetson at Punchestown exactly 20 months ago. In the wars since, he's had to endure a broken leg, not once, but twice, and a fractured knee.

Do Try Dolly was never far away and she really went into over-drive approaching the last.

The daughter of Millenary soon had her rivals trailing in her wake, and crossed the line with four and a quarter lengths in hand over Fearachain Burrenbridge Lodge was a length back in third. Ferachain's trainer Tony Mullins also supplied the fourth home, Balinaboola Prince

"She's been a great little servant," reflected Fahey.

"That's Paddy's first winner for me. He's a great lad to ride work or do anything. He's very obliging, and it's great that he's had a winner after all his mishaps.

"If the weather stays dry she might tip away. She's been placed a few times on the Flat, and we might have a crack at a two-mile handicap in Dundalk over the winter."

"The owners (the New Booleigh Deere Syndicate) are agricultural contractors for New Holland and John Deere, from Ballon and Nurney, and the mare was bred by Celine Mullins who is a first cousin of Willie."

(AM & EM)