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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Five-timer 'mugged' by Check Your Pockets

Sat 28th Jul 2018, 15:33

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© Photo Healy Racing

Check Your Pockets nabbed five-timer chasing Waitingforthedays close home in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF (Fillies) Handicap at Gowran today, as the John Kiely trained winner put a recent disappointing performance behind her.

Check Your Pockets, a daughter of City Zip and today ridden by Declan McDonogh, trailing her four rivals at Roscommon on July 9, having won 11 days previously at Tipperary. Today she bounced back to form when arriving with a wet sail to edge past Waitingforthedays near the line, for a head win.

Top weight Waitingforthedays, for trainer Joseph O'Brien, was narrowly failing to collect a fifth consecutive handicap success, having won at Leopardstown, twice, and at Fairyhouse and Dundalk in June and July.

Kiely later said “it's good to see Roscommon out the door anyway. I was very disappointed with her there.

“I don't know if she was in season, we never found out, but it wasn't her run.

“She likes racing and likes to come from behind.”

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.