Great start to big weekend for Clipper

They sponsor the Group 2 Boomerang Stakes at Leopardstown tomorrow and Clipper Logistics Group Ltd got the weekend off to the right start by landing the opener at Kilbeggan. Their The Brassmoulder did the business in the Summer Party Pack Discount Group Booking Opportunity Maiden Hurdle. Become Legend took them along in this two miler, but it boiled down to a match between the Chris Timmons-ridden The Brassmoulder, and favourite Chateauneuf Du Pap up the straight.

Both had run at the Tramore festival on their previous start. On outing number two seven-year-old The Brassmoulder just edged things here by a neck

Henry de Bromhead trains the victorious Milan gelding for Steve Parkin's aforementioned company.

"He's a bit babyish still but he was always finding a little more," said Timmons.

"It's only his second run so there's plenty of improvement in him I'd say.

"It's the first race, so it's new ground, and I'd say if it was a later race it might have been a different story but he got away with it there. He's by Milan.

"There is plenty of scope for improvement, as he's a baby still, and also when he gets a fence in time."

(GC & EM)