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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Dream delivers on Irish debut

Sun 1st Jan 2023, 13:37

Indiana Dream and Luke DempseyIndiana Dream and Luke Dempsey
© Photo Healy Racing

Indiana Dream was Champion Trainer Willie Mullins' second successful French-import today, as J.P. McManus' gelding landed Fairyhouse's ITM Stallion Trail January 13&14 Maiden Hurdle under Luke Dempsey.

Successful on debut in a French AQPS Bumper at Fontainebleau last February, the five year old today won well on jumps debut, defeating An Mhi by 15 lengths.

Mullins was at Tramore, where his French-import Quais De Paris won the opener, and at Fairyhouse his assistant David Casey said “he’s (Indiana Dream) a lovely looking horse and does everything right at home. He won a French bumper and looking at the size of him I’d say there is plenty of improvement in him.

“There is a winners’ of one race in a few weeks but that will probably come too soon. He’s a grand horse, we like him.”

Paddy Power and Betfair later cut Indiana Dream to 20/1 (from 33/1) for both the Ballymore and Albert Bartlett Hurdles at Cheltenham in March.

Quotes from Alan Magee

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.