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Firey Oscar serving Sweeney family well

Firey Oscar (nearside) jumps the last alongside Battlemount before going on to winFirey Oscar (nearside) jumps the last alongside Battlemount before going on to win
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A course and distance winner and runner-up here a fortnight back, Firey Oscar defied the welter-burden of twelve stone four in the concluding Suir (Q.R.) Handicap Hurdle at Clonmel.

Colman Sweeney helped to off-set that impost somewhat by claiming three pounds off his mother Joan's eight-year-old and in the end the now three time winner had a length and a quarter to spare over Battlemount The 5/2 favourite led on the run-in and kept on best.

The nicely supported 6/1 hope, Wing It Lady was left eight and a half lengths behind in third.

Meanwhile the more than admirable fifteen-year-old A New Story ran another good race to finish sixth.

Colman's father Rodger trains Firey Oscar and he quipped: "We'll stay below Cashel (lower grades at the 'country' tracks) with him. You have no business going above there with a horse like him.

"Hopefully we'll pick up another one with him and he might run in a small chase along the line too." (TW & EM)