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Donal Murphy

Donal Murphy

64/1 double for Bolger and Harrington

Fri 30th Aug 2013, 18:30

Bob Le Beau jumps the last under Mark BolgerBob Le Beau jumps the last under Mark Bolger
© Photo Healy Racing

After the success of Fresh By Nature thirty minutes earlier, Jessica Harrington and Mark Bolger quickly doubled up as Bob Le Beau took the SHS Sales & Marketing Hurdle. Fatcatinthehat went off the 8/15 favourite (opened on-course at 4/6), for Willie Mullins and Paul Townend, with the winner going off at 4/1.

A Listed winner on the level, the six-year-old victorious son of Big Bad Bob won his maiden hurdle at Ballinrobe in June, finishing a close up fifth to Que Pasa on his next start at Galway, before finding Blackmail far too good on his last start at Bellewstown.

Having raced in second, he got a nice run up the rail to get on terms with Fatcatinthehat at the third last.

He got to the front before two out, and he asserted on the run-in to score easily by seven and a half lengths.

Fatcatinthehat went badly left approaching the third last, drifting across to the stand side, eventually finishing second, while his stablemate Moveable Asset was half a length back in third.

Mark Bolger said afterwards: "That fella's a good horse on the flat.

"Small fields and two miles suits him. He's tough and stays.

"To be fair he's been busy over hurdles. He's a proper good ground horse and he'll be kept going."

Additional reporting by Michael Graham

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.