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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Birthday boy Dias welcomes thirties with winner

Fri 9th Mar 2012, 20:31

Matjar and Diego Dias are clear at Dundalk Matjar and Diego Dias are clear at Dundalk
© Photo Healy Racing

Birthday boy Diego Dias waved goodbye to his twenties in some style, at Dundalk tonight, scoring his first winner for three and a half years on Matjar in the Www.valuecentre.ie Handicap (div 1).

The Brazilian jockey produced Matjar to lead along the inside rail in the straight before staying on well for an easy win two and three parts length win over Aragorn Icon

Dias, who turned 30 today, passed the winning post with a victory wave worthy of the Galway Festival and later mentioned “that is my fifth winner in Ireland but my first for some time!”

Winning trainer Joe Quinn, from Sixmilebridge, Co Clare, was absent but also had provided Dias with each of his previous four winners in Ireland, the latest coming on the same horse, Matjar at Killarney in July 2008.

1st
10/3JFav
Tote €5.40 €1.60
2nd
2.75L
10/3JFav
€1.50
3rd
1L
7/1
€2.60
4th
0.75L
14/1
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.