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Tullintain sluices up under O'Connor
Tullintain coming off a 250 day break, made light of that absence when taking the Shannon Tourism Maiden Hunters Steeplechase in good fashion by eight lengths. Proform Native the well-backed favourite, chased the pace-setting Theresathingwrong but Derek O'Connor patiently cruised into contention on Tullintain, he led early in the straight and the result was well and truly beyond doubt when he confirmed the win with a lovely leap at the last.
Successful trainer, Robert Tyner, handles the Oscar gelding for his wife Mary, who also bred the six-year-old and he said: "He is 16.2 or 3, a fine big horse that won three point-to-points. He got beat in Killeagh one day but the track there would have been too tight for him.
"He was gone off the boil by the time that he finished down the field in a bumper at Tipperary and we left him off after that. I was a little concerned that he might need this but he had a nice bit done at home. There was no winners of three for him in points and those opens are like top handicaps at the moment.
"He'll go for another hunter chase now."