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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Dundalk double for Whearty

Wed 17th Nov 2021, 19:04

Picpoul gets the better of Wee JimPicpoul gets the better of Wee Jim
© Photo Healy Racing

Apprentice jockey Robert Whearty completed a first career double today, landing Dundalk's DundalkStadium.com Handicap (div I) on the Michael Rice trained Picpoul

The daughter of Gale Force Ten was a 50/1 winner over today's course and 1m4f distance last Wednesday and today, the 11/4 favourite, scored by half a length from Wee Jim

Rice, who trains locally, later reported “she’s the first flat horse that I’ve trained so I might be looking at getting a few more in! She’s a decent filly and I took my time with her as a two-year-old, got her experienced and it’s paid off.

“She never missed a feed from last week and I’ve actually given her an extra kilo a day.

“We might step her up in trip. There is a two-mile race here on Friday week so we’ll have a look at that.”

Jockey Whearty had earlier steered the Pat Martin trained Indiana Grey to the opening leg of his double.

Quotes from Alan Magee

1st
11/4Fav
Tote €3.90 €2.00
2nd
0.5L
17/2
€2.50
3rd
0.5L
12/1
€3.90
4th
0.5L
18/1
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.