Fatcat can't catch Harry

Thu 6th Dec 2012, 13:33

Crouching Harry accounts for Fatcatinthehat and Hazariban at Clonmel
(Healy Racing Photos)

Eoin Doyle struck in the finale on Clonmel Oil Chase day back in the middle of last month with Hawaii Five Nil (sold last Saturday for £130,000 to Jonjo O'Neill). The Kilkenny handler wasn't long about again picking up the winning thread at Powerstown Park when Crouching Harry landed the opening 3-y-o Maiden Hurdle under Mickey Butler.

The Tiger Hill gelding made all and he held off the odds-on favourite, Fatcatinthehat by half a length. That one raced keenly, didn't have a completely trouble free passage but ultimately had every chance.

Doyle explained: "He deserved that. He has run well everyday but he's always seemed to find one too good.

"He picked up well today and stayed at it well.

"We'll try and find a winners of one at Christmas if there is one."

The winning owners, the Suir Syndicate, are a three member grouping that includes Glenmore and Kilkenny hurling top-man of the past, Christy Heffernan. (TW & EM)

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