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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Hip off the mark over fences

Sun 22nd Jan 2012, 15:06

The Edward O’Grady trained Shot From The Hip showed the benefit from his unsuccessful chase debut over Christmas when winning the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Beginners Chase at Fairyhouse today.

The Grade 1 winning son of Monsun, ridden by Mark Walsh, jumped much better than on his chase debut and while untidy at the second last fence today, eventually proved half a length to strong for former Cheltenham winner Ninetieth Minute

Afterwards O’Grady said “I was delighted with his jumping today as opposed to being horrified at Christmas!

“He had it all to do today – the first two horses are both good horses. I wanted to get his jumping right today and get that win out of the way. That’s mission accomplished now and we’ll probably go for a winners’ race somewhere now.”

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.