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Donal Murphy

Donal Murphy

Madam the Top mare at Wexford

Sat 27th Oct 2012, 15:09

Top Madam (centre) is driven out on the run-in by Harley Dunne with Rising Time (left) and Miss Accurate (right)Top Madam (centre) is driven out on the run-in by Harley Dunne with Rising Time (left) and Miss Accurate (right)
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Kiltealy man Harley Dunne recorded his first winner at his local track as he took the Casey Tarmacadam Mares Hurdle aboard the ultra-consistent Donal Coffey trained Top Madam

Sent off at 4/1, the 6yo daughter of Beneficial (second win of this afternoon for that sire after Call Rog , tracked the leaders early on before making headway to lead at the halfway stage.

She was ridden at the second last but kept on well under pressure to assert before the last and stay on best on the run-in to score by a length and a quarter at the line.

The Paul Nolan trained Rising Time ran a nice race to finish second at 4/1 while Miss Accurate was a further half a length back in third at 10/1 for Dessie Hughes and Bryan Cooper.

Winning trainer Donal Coffey, who won this race in 2009 with Printing Copper, said afterwards: “She likes good ground and hopefully she will stay right.

“She won a point-to-point and she will eventually go chasing.” Streamtown was sent off the 10/3 favourite for Stuart Crawford after being backed on-course from 9/2.

The daughter of Bob Back was beaten turning for home and could only manage seventh.

Top Madam was recording her fourth success of the 2012/13 National Hunt season this afternoon.

About Donal Murphy
Donal graduated from Maynooth University in 2010 with a BBS in Equine Business and since attained a diploma in Sports Journalism from Dublin Business School. He holds a variety of roles in the horse racing industry, reporting for the Press Association and p2p.ie, while also working for SIS and the Tote. From Wexford, he is a keen runner and has completed over 100 parkruns at various locations around the country.