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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Galway 'let me down' wins at Killarney

Thu 20th Aug 2020, 17:46

Buildmeupbuttercup negotiates the final flightBuildmeupbuttercup negotiates the final flight
© Photo Healy Racing

Buildmeupbuttercup owed Paul Townend a winner following the mare's recent Galway Hurdle defeat but supplied the Champion Jockey with the second leg of a double for his employer Willie Mullins at Killarney today, in the Listed GMHD Hurdle.

Townend picked Buildmeupbuttercup to ride in the Galway Hurdle on August 2 but the pair managed just fifth behind Mullins' winner Aramon, whom Townend turned down.

Today the daughter of Sixties Icon easily justified 8/13 favouritism when winning eased down, by three and a quarter lengths, from Dollys Destination

The race was marred by the death of the John Kiely trained Penny Out which fell at the second last flight.

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.