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Alan Magee

Alan Magee

Dane proves the King for Mullins/Townend

Sun 20th Apr 2014, 17:04

Daneking (Paul Townend) clears the last ahead of Darwins Fox Daneking (Paul Townend) clears the last ahead of Darwins Fox
© Photo Healy Racing

Willie Mullins and Paul Townend teamed up to take the €50,000 Boylesports Easter Festival Handicap Hurdle with Daneking

The five-year-old son of Dylan Thomas, successful in a maiden at Navan last time, was making his handicap debut over hurdles and made good headway to lead after two out.

Townend’s mount soon took control and the 6/1 chance stayed on well on the run-in to beat long-time leader Darwins Fox by three lengths. False Economy was a further two and three quarter lengths back in third, with Bally Longford completing the placings in fourth.

Mullins said, “The ground was a big help, and we’ll look at the big two and a half miles handicap hurdle at Punchestown.

“He’s not a chaser so we may look at the Flat for him, although I don’t want to fire him up too much as we’ve been trying to get him settled over hurdles. The hood worked well today.”

About Alan Magee
Alan has worked in the racing industry for well over 30 years including with the Sporting Life, Turform and Irish Racing Services. He took up his current role as Irish Racing Team Leader with the Press Association in 2013. He has a keen interest in most sports and plays golf.