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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

News At Six completes treble

Thu 10th Jul 2014, 19:50

News At Six and Kevin ManningNews At Six and Kevin Manning
© Photo Healy Racing

Rarely do horses break their maiden tags in a Derby but News At Six did so at the Curragh last month and completed a fine hat-trick of wins in the Peter Hook & The Light Race at Leopardstown today, for his trainer Jim Bolger.

Jockey Ronan Whelan steered the son of New Approach to a maiden win in the Apprentice Derby in June before Bolger's stable jockey Kevin Manning took over to win at Fairyhouse on July 2 and again today. The win also brought up Manning's double having earlier steered Bolger's Teocht to win a handicap.

Following News At Six's win, Bolger stated “the ground was not a help. He's entered in the E100,000 Nasrullah Handicap here next Thursday (formerly the Golden Pages Handicap) over the same trip and could go for that but has some competition (with three other stablemates also entered - Einstein's Folly, Chance To Dance and Teoirim)!”

Quotes from Alan Magee

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.