HRI Award winner Joyce gets the ball rolling for 2024 HRI Flat Achievement Award winner Wesley Joyce registered a first 2024 winner today, steering Moondharrig (5/1) to a hard-fought success in Dundalk's One Of The Only Dual Racetracks In Europe Handicap (Div II). Out of Group 2 Debutante Stakes winner Campfire Glow, the four-year-old son of Fascinating Rock today raced in first-time blinkers, making almost all of the running to win. Moondharrig fought off Lucky Question's (1/1f) brief challenge two furlongs out and while runner-up Don't Look Now threatened inside 'the last', the winner held on for an all-out head success. Winning trainer Eoin Doyle wasn't present and Joyce reported “he jumped and was in my hands a little bit, so I was happy to let him travel away. He was game in the first-time blinkers and meant business today, although I thought I was chinned! "He kept going, but I thought we were done on the line. "He was good two runs back when Joey Sheridan rode him." Jockey Joyce returned form life-threatening injuries last August, registering 13 winners before picking up December's HRI award. Quotes from Michael Graham
