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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Egan back in the winner's enclosure

Fri 18th Jan 2013, 22:17

Dashing Duchess and John EganDashing Duchess and John Egan
© Photo Healy Racing

Veteran Classic winning jockey John Egan, who has recently taken out a trainers' license, registered his first win in the saddle since last July when steering the Joanna Morgan trained Dashing Duchess to win the Follow Dundalk On Facebook Handicap (div 1) at Dundalk this evening.

Egan, whose best season in Britain yielded 105 winners, needed to work hard on the daughter of Pilsudski eventually moving the six year old to the front close home to defeat Blue Ridge Lane

Following the win, Morgan stated “her back was wrong for a while and when we got that sorted the ground went against her! She'll probably come back here again and will go back hurdling when the ground improves a bit.

Egan's previous winner was on Salam Alaykum and that same horse became his first runner as a trainer at this venue on January 4.

Quotes from Alan Magee

1st
4/1Cfav
Tote €4.40 €2.10
2nd
0.5L
12/1
€2.70
3rd
0.75L
20/1
€4.90
4th
2.5L
8/1
bf
1L
4/1Cfav
bf
nose
4/1Cfav
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.