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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Fitzgerald enjoys Kilbeggan double

Mon 13th Jun 2022, 20:12

Tullybeg and Shane FitzgeraldTullybeg and Shane Fitzgerald
© Photo Healy Racing

Four-time hurdle winner Tullybeg (7/2) got off the mark over fences today, landing Kilbeggan's Belvedere House & Gardens Opportunity Beginners Chase for trainer Gordon Elliott and completing a double for jockey Shane Fitzgerald.

The Bective Stud owned seven year old jumped well and went the inside of left-jumping leader and 5/6 favourite Authorized Art with half a mile to race, before scoring by five and a half lengths from that rival.

Elliott wasn't present and Fitzgerald, earlier successful on the Brian Hamilton trained Miss Us O later said “he jumped savage, you just sit back and enjoy him!

“He didn't make a mistake the whole way, he was absolutely foot perfect. He did it very well in the end and toughed it out to the line.”

Quotes from Gary Carson

About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.