Review DUNDALK 12-JUL-2000 Derby winning rider John Murtagh had mixed fortunes at Dundalk yesterday evening when partnering a winner but also picking up a three day whip suspension.The former champion was hit with a three day ban for using his whip with excessive force and frequency aboard newcomer Gandon in the Drumcar Maiden. The Declan Gillespie trained gelding appeared set to win a furlong out but was pegged back in the closing stages and beaten three quarters of a length by Goldnblues. The suspension runs from July 22-24, and the Meathman will miss the Golden Pages meeting at Leopardstown.Murtagh later moved onto the 32 winner mark for the season when Joking Rebuff made most to take the Bar-One Racing Handicap. The seven-year-old gelding, providing Derry permit-holder Liam O'Kane with his first success, was sent clear inside the final quarter mile but only held on by a diminishing head from Grassland Star.Frances Crowley and Pat Smullen, successful with Goldnblues, later doubled up with Amialone in the Carrickdale Handicap. The filly led over a furlong out to beat Murtagh's mount Colouring by a length and a half and, like Goldnblues, is reported to have schooled well over hurdles.
