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Michael Graham

Michael Graham

Beacon Lodge at home in Ireland

Sun 6th Oct 2013, 16:12

Beacon Lodge, red, swoops down the outside in TipperaryBeacon Lodge, red, swoops down the outside in Tipperary
© Photo Healy Racing

Trainer Tommy Stack worked the oracle with Beacon Lodge as the eight-year-old scored in Tipperary on his Irish debut.

He last raced in England for Dandy Nicholls in a claimer in July when finishing fourth. However, he relished this spin in a 60 – 100 handicap partnered by Billy Lee.

From mid-division, the pair made their move down the outside to grab the lead inside the furlong pole and power on to win by two and a quarter lengths at 14/1. Bubbly Bellini also at 14/1, stayed on from seventh to second in the latter stages, half a length in front of Barack (8/1).

Afterwards Liz and Tommy Stack commented: “He likes the ground. We have him about six weeks and we don’t know that much about him. “We’ll see what the handicapper does with him. He was a good horse when younger, but he had lost his way a bit.”

As a two-year-old Beacon Lodge won the Group 3 Mountgrange Stud Stakes in Newbury in 2007. His last success came in Haydock’s Listed Spring Trophy Stakes in 2011.

Ronan Whelan received a one-day suspension for weighing in 1.5lbs above the correct weight on Morga who finished fifth.

Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes

About Michael Graham
Michael has worked in horse racing journalism for more than 15 years, having also written a weekly betting column on Gaelic football and hurling for a newspaper. He is involved in writing the My Racing Story features on this website. He spent a year in South Africa completing a Diploma in Business Administration and also studied Newspaper Journalism in Belfast. He enjoys playing 5-a-side football on a regular basis.