Storm Ranger and Denis Linehan win the apprentice handicap© Photo Healy Racing
Pat Flynn saddled the 750th winner of his long and illustrious career when Storm Ranger took the Derek O’Sullivan Memorial Apprentice Handicap at the Curragh.
The Carrick-on-Suir handler has enjoyed many great days in the past with Cheltenham winners Montelado and French Ballerina plus Designs On Rome, who went on to be a champion in Hong Kong.
Storm Ranger, well backed on track from 10/1 into 7/1, made good headway in the straight under Denis Linehan.
The five-year-old gelding struck the front inside the final furlong of this 1m2f event, and kept on well to beat Emily Square by a length and three quarters. Dazzle The Duel was a further two and three quarter lengths away in third, with Commander Won completing the places in fourth.
Flynn said, “I was a lucky man today as I was very nearly leaving him at home. I rang here and it hadn’t rained and I said we’d chance it but he did it well. He’ll be some horse over hurdles.”
