ON THE eve of the trainer’s 91st birthday, Chris Hayes of Shanagolden was on the mark on Kevin Prendergast’s Profit Refused at Roscommon.
Jointly owned by Prendergast and Jackie Bolger, the 5/6 favourite led passing the two-furlong pole to beat Gavin Cromwell’s Megarry by a length and three-parts on just her second start.
Meanwhile, Abbeyfeale’s Paddy Hartnett kept the brilliant run of County Down trainer Leanne Breen going when getting 11/1 shot Livingston Range home in the near six-furlong apprentice handicap at Naas at the weekend.
Elsewhere, conditional jockey Mark McDonagh of Cratloe teamed up with trainer Eoin Griffin to land the feature Bellewstown Handicap Hurdle with Wouldn’t You Agree on the final day of the County Meath’s track July Festival.
And, Killarney – which rightly boasts of being Ireland’s most scenic racecourse – will stage its July Festival from Monday to Friday of next week.
