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Northern Emperor wins on return

Northern Emperor and Simon TorrensNorthern Emperor and Simon Torrens
© Photo Healy Racing

Northern Emperor defied a nine months absence to win the Guinness Handicap Hurdle at Listowel today, scoring for trainer Val O'Brien and jockey Simon Torrens.

The son of Azamour's last run was 254 days ago, in January, but was today produced in fine fettle when scoring a straightforward win over Not So Simple

Northern Emperor was today registering a second career success and following the race trainer O'Brien stated “it's nice to get another win with him, the ground helps him and he stayed the distance.

“I was worried that he hadn't run since January but thankfully he was fine. We have no race picked out but we'll probably keep him at three miles seeing as he handled it here.

“Hopefully he can go on to win again somewhere. We might try him over fences sometime at the smaller tracks because he's not very big, but he'll be kept hurdling for a while.”

1st
18/1
Tote €27.00 €5.10
2nd
13L
4/1
€1.50
3rd
2L
6/1
€1.10
4th
2.25L
28/1
€4.30
bf
10L
7/2Fav
About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.