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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Smullen edges ahead

Sat 18th Oct 2008, 18:00

Jockey Pat Smullen edged ahead in the Flat Jockeys' Championship with a double at Cork today.

Sumllen partnered Joanna Morgan's Fairy Flow to win the Kanturk Handicap before winning the concluding Blackwater Maiden on Dermot Weld's Mr Topaz

Following Mr Topaz's win, Weld son Kris Weld reported "we'll see how he comes out of this race and then he may go for the Eyrefield Stakes at Leopardstown. He is a nice horse and is related to Vinnie Roe, who won that Leopardstown race in 2000."

Smullen's double moves him onto the 78 winner mark for the year, one ahead of Fran Berry, who himself partnered a winner at Cork today, and three ahead of Johnny Murtagh.

1st
11/8Fav
Tote €1.70 €1.80
2nd
hd
16/1
€4.40
3rd
3.5L
4/1
€1.70
4th
1.25L
8/1
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.