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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Stealthy Tom a well-backed winner

Sun 15th May 2022, 17:49

Stealthy Tom and Shane Fitzgerald  Stealthy Tom and Shane Fitzgerald
© Photo Healy Racing

The market spoke in favour of previous course winner Stealthy Tom (4/1 this morning, SP 5/4 fav) and he got the job done in the Shay Rooney Handicap Chase.

The Yeats gelding tracked the leaders under Shane Fitzgerald and moved past the pace-setting Presenting Cody between the final two fences. The eight-year-old went on to beat that rival by two and three quarter lengths with another dozen lengths back to Shes Some Doll in third.

Winning trainer Enda Bolger said: "Horses for courses and he got a lovely ride from Shane. He is a half-brother to Gilgamboa so didn't pick it up off the side of the road!

"Hopefully he'll come back here in July but banks' racing will be his job down the road with obviously Punchestown next year a target."

It was a second winner for JP McManus at Killarney after Celestial Horizon and his daughter Sue Ann was successful with Amortentia on the Flat at Naas.

Quotes from Tom Weekes

1st
5/2Fav
Tote €3.50 €1.50
2nd
0.5L
9/1
€2.10
3rd
1.5L
8/1
€3.00
4th
3L
28/1
About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.