Connections Feeling The Love once more for Flyer family

Moscow Flyer's niece Feeling The Love got off the mark for the Champion Chaser's trainer Jessica Harrington at Killarney today, as the J.P. McManus owned mare landed the Europe Hotel & Resort Handicap Hurdle.

The daughter of Yeats is out of sister to dual Champion Chase hero Moscow Flyer and today was the comfortable and well backed 2/1f winning favourite, scoring under jockey Mark Walsh.

Trainer Harrington wasn't present but afterwards Frank Berry, racing manager to McManus, reported “she is very well bred but has had a lot of relations that never did anything. We've had a lot of the family and they were disappointing but, anyway, it's nice to see her coming good and winning.

“She ran a grand race in Roscommon and she came home well and it was nice to see her pulling out well today.

“She goes on the quick ground and hopefully we'll get another run or two into her before the ground changes, although we might find somewhere quieter than Galway.”

Feeling The Love's dam Blooming Quick was bought for E215,000 as a three year old in 2002, three months after her brother Moscow Flyer won the Arkle Chase at Cheltenham for jockey Barry Geraghty.