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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Unoccupied defeats Byrnes gamble

Sun 17th Mar 2013, 16:49

Unoccupied and Mark EnrightUnoccupied and Mark Enright
© Photo Healy Racing

Unoccupied foiled a gamble on the Charles Byrnes trained Whiskey Hall (100/30 – 2/1f) in the Newton Abbot Racecourse Handicap Hurdle at Limerick today, winning for trainer Eoghan O'Grady and leading conditional jockey Mark Enright.

The winner led from four out and stayed on under pressure in the straight to hold off the challenge of Whiskey Hall by 12 lengths.

The runner-up was having his first run for a year having, almost identically, failed to land a gamble when second in the corresponding race last year.

After the win, O'Grady stated “he's in at Mallow (Cork) on Thursday in a handicap hurdle and his 4lbs penalty for winning here will leave him just one pound out of the handicap. Provided he comes out of this race well, he'll go there next.”

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.