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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Rothwell's Shrewdoperator causes 28/1 upset

Sun 5th Nov 2017, 16:16

The Philip Rothwell trained Shrewdoperator gained an overdue first win at Cork today when scoring a 28/1 upset, on his 20th career start, in the Paddy Power Onside App Handicap Chase, winning under jockey Conor Maxwell.

Afterwards Rothwell said “I had a lot of confidence in him today because of the heavy ground and was hoping he’d run a big race.

“He had been placed in a few bumpers early in his career but was always well beaten and was just a little slow over hurdles as he is a big horse. He proper missed the last but stayed at it well. Oliver and Marie (Barden) are so good to me and are great great supporters and all their family love racing; I’d two winners for them at the start of the summer and it’s great to have another one 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.