FOLLOWING on from his win in the Grade 2 Mares’ Bumper at Aintree (aboard Seo Linn), Ballingarry’s Billy Lee again teamed up with trainer Paddy Twomey to land the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Noblesse Stakes at Cork on Sunday.
The French import led over a furlong from the finish to beat Jack Davison’s Ameerat Jumaira.
Lee rode his first winner of the weekend on the Adrian Murray-trained 11/2 shot Pedro Nunes in the seven-furlong maiden for three-year-olds at Dundalk on Friday.
A day later, The Dreams Of Glory Racing Syndicate-owned Aurora Nova overcame a tardy start to win the five-furlong handicap at Bellewstown.
Ridden by Wesley Joyce of Moyross for trainer and Croom-native Andrew McNamara (now based in Meath), the 11/1 chance was well on top at the line as he came through to beat Patrick McKenna’s Lismacbryan Hill by a length and a quarter, a first winner for the owners.
A few days’ earlier, Top Of the Pops, owned by the Lios Dearg Rangers Partnership, made much of the running to win the eight-furlong handicap for Joyce at Gowran Park.
Athlacca’s Ray Barron and county Kildare trainer Ross O’Sullivan landed the Listed Irish Stallion Farms EBF Total Enjoyment Mares Bumper with 3/1 chance Switch From Diesel at Fairyhouse on Sunday.
Owned and bred by Paul Mullins, the six-year-old went clear inside the final furlong to win by all of six lengths from Declan Queally’s 7/2 shot Carrigmoornaspruce, her third bumper success.
