Review gowran park 9th May

< Wicklow Brave transferred his undoubted hurdling talent to the level when he won the Follow Gowran Park On Facebook Maiden in impressive style at Gowran.

Willie Mullins' charge, a long-priced winner of the County Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival on his previous start, was sent off the 5-4 favourite in an intriguing field that included other useful jumpers in Ned Buntline and Jennies Jewel

David Casey was in no hurry as Jennies Jewel took them along, and he found a willing partner when he asked Wicklow Brave to close up in the straight, the six-year-old sweeping into the lead a furlong out and galloping two and three-quarter lengths clear.< Radanpour made it two wins from as many starts when he ran out a comfortable winner of the three-horse Goresbridge Rated Race on a big afternoon for treble scorers Leigh Roche and Dermot Weld.

Roche sat second on the 4-5 favourite and sent him into the lead two furlongs out, after which he had no trouble confirming last month's Tipperary form with Jacobean beating the Ballydoyle contender by seven lengths.

The jockey and trainer doubled up when the always prominent Tuk Tuk (6-4 favourite) took command a quarter of a mile out in the Raceday Packages At gowranpark.ie Median Auction Maiden and readily scored by a length and three-quarters.

They went on to the treble when 20-1 outsider Magic Kitten wearing first-time blinkers, put in a late challenge and grabbed Pat Harkin deep inside the final furlong to take the Family Fun Day June 21st Handicap by a length and a half.

There was a desperately close three-way finish to the Gowran Park Golf Club Maiden and it went to Jim Bolger's filly Sr Cartage who justified evens favouritism by a nose from the front-running Cillian's Return in the hands of Kevin Manning.

Connor King drove Tawseef into the lead a furlong out in the Ladies Day June 20th Apprentice Handicap and Colin Bowe's seven-year-old (7-1) got the better of a fight with favourite Colla Pier to win by half a length.