Broomfield Hall and Tom Feeney © Photo Healy Racing
Runner-up on her debut at Punchestown just nine days previously, Broomfield Hall (7/2) was a ready winner of the Kilfeacle (Mares) Point-To-Point INH Flat Race in the hands of Tom Feeney.
The latter was partnering his fifth bumper winner of the campaign and bided his time before asking his mount to improve approaching the straight. The daughter of Jeremy led two furlongs out and went right away to win by a dozen lengths from the Evens favourite Glenbeg Express
Winning trainer Liam Burke said: “We took a chance running her back quick but it being a point-to-point race I had to take a chance and there wasn't a suitable race for a while. She also hasn't come right in her coat and that was my biggest concern with her
"We'll keep her for hurdling next season and she is a fierce honest mare and the further the better for her."
Burke also had some interesting views on the point-to-point scene.
“To be honest I haven't been impacted by the point-to-points this year as I have drifted away from them in the last few years as we can't compete. The whole thing has changed and the horses we had been buying aren't good enough.
"You have to have horses so so fit now to win a point-to-point and if they don't win, they are wrecked after it. If I run in a hurdle or bumper, they have less weight over two miles and you have a good recovery."
Quotes from Thomas Weekes
