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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Agent Boru ends long losing spell

Sat 24th Oct 2020, 16:33

Agent Boru and Darragh O Keeffe (right) with Bothar Dubh in secondAgent Boru and Darragh O Keeffe (right) with Bothar Dubh in second
© Photo Healy Racing

Agent Boru registered his first win in two and a half years at Galway today as the Tom Gibney trained, Darragh O'Keeffe partnered nine year old landed the W.B. Gavin & Co. Handicap Hurdle.

The point-to-point winning son of Brian Boru's only previous racecourse win was in a Grade B Hurdle at the Fairyhouse Easter festival in 2018 and today ended a 15-race losing spell when beating Bothar Dubh by nine lengths.

Irish Grand National winner Gibney later commented “he is a tricky customer and does his own thing. It was going to happen one day we just didn't know when and he'd go on any ground.

“We'll look for something similar and he'll go back over fences too.”

About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.