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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Weld - I've used all my Galway ammunition!

Thu 10th Jul 2014, 20:36

Hellenistic and Pat Smullen winning for Dermot Weld Hellenistic and Pat Smullen winning for Dermot Weld
© Photo Healy Racing

Dermot Weld has forged potentially significant links with Calumet Farm in recent times and the trainer registered his third winner for that Kentucky based super-stud, when their Hellenistic landed the Leopardstown Summer Membership Handicap at Leopardstown today.

The win was Weld and stable jockey Pat Smullen's second of the evening, having earlier won the opener with Sarafiyla and Weld later stated “she has progressed since her last start and did it well.”

Regarding his association with the internationally famous Calumet Farm, Weld, in his first year training for the Farm, added “Calumet Farm is a farm steeped in history and is a fabulous place.”

Calumet Farm, whose owner Brad Kelley and family were present for the win, gained fame as the breeding ground of eight Kentucky Derby and two American Triple Crown winners (Whirlaway and Citation).

Weld is an old pro at playing down wild speculation about his horses' chances at the upcoming annual Galway Festival and, having already trained 51 Flat winners in 2014, later playfully pleaded with Attheraces viewers to be cautious, saying “I think I've used all my ammunition for Galway!”

Surely not.

Quotes from Alan Magee

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.