Kildorrery swoops wide in bumper

Kildorrery stormed home on the wide outside to land the concluding bumper at Tramore this afternoon.

Katie Walsh kept her mount to the outer in the two-mile contest and that tactic paid off as he swooped in the closing stages.

Nina Carberry drove 4/5 shot Best Of Dubai into the lead over two furlongs from home but she couldn't hold the late charge of Kildorrery as Ted Walsh's charge swooped from the rear.

The Arakan gelding powered clear in the closing stages for a four-and-a-half length success.

Kildorrery had fallen and been brought down on his last two outings over hurdles.

Ted Walsh said:- "He's a daft horse but he has ability. Ruby rode him in Clonmel and he galloped up on something in front of him and turned over.

“Then he was going to run at Thurles and he got down in the box and I had to withdraw him, and last time Ian McCarthy rode him and something whipped the legs out from underneath him at the first hurdle.

"He's like his old mother (Killeen Castle) but if he ever settles down he's not a bad horse. He was fourth in a point-to-point (at Oldtown) that has worked out very well."

(Quotes by Alan Magee)