Macgiloney and Daniel King © Photo Healy Racing
Macgiloney has proved a great servant to connections and recorded his 11th career win when taking the Joe Cooney Memorial Hurdle at Kilbeggan.
Daniel King produced the Denis Hogan-trained gelding to head the front-running Stratum approaching the final flight and he kept on strongly on the run-in to beat that rival by five lengths. Gevrey was a further four and three-quarter lengths back in third.
Hogan said, “He’s a ten-year-old now and that’s 11 races that he’s won, he’s a brilliant servant.
“He’s been a bit in and out this year but would have won here two runs ago when he stumbled at the back of the last so he deserved that.
“Looking at the race he was meeting them all wrong at the weights but they are all old horses and have two ways of running at this stage so we said we’d take our chance. Hopefully the handicapper won’t react too harshly.
“They are hard horses to place. We pulled him out of Galway because of the ground and then we ran on similar ground here. It’s loose here so we got away with it.
“Extreme trips suit him and if we could get three and a half miles that would be great.
“Daniel gave him a lovely ride and had him in all the right places.”
