Sales-bound Noble Music defies top weight

Noble Music defied top weight when making all to win the Cork Handicap at Mallow today as the soon-to-be-sold filly credited her trainer Michael O'Meara with a second winner.

The daughter of Sea The Moon was O'Meara's first winner as a trainer at Roscommon in July and today jockey Bill Lee made all on the four year old who eventually repelled the challenge of Dundory by four and a half lengths.

O'Meara later stated “she will go to the horses in training sale in Newmarket in ten days and would be an ideal national hunt horse. We could do that job but the boss (William Kennedy of Stanley Lodge in Cashel) is into the flat scene.

“We recently moved a few horses down to the south of France to race for trainer Jerome Reynier and have yearlings coming along from Stanley Lodge. There is one horse for Dundalk and we keep moving them in the right places.

“I have my license since the start of lockdown and previously worked in America for ten years; I worked for breeze-up man Jerry Bailey in Florida, then Jeff Morrison and at John Gunter's (Glennwood) farm in Kentucky.

“I did all the circuits and am now a private trainer based in Tipperary.”