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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Group 3 success for Crowley

Wed 2nd Jul 2008, 20:01

Trainer Frances Crowley claimed the feature event at Leopardstown this evening when her Cheyenne Star ran out the length and a half winner of the Group 3 Irish Stallion Farms EBF Brownstown Stakes.

The 5yo mare, backed from 6/1 into 9/2 SP, received a well timed ride from Irish Derby winning rider Seamie Heffernan and a delighted Crowley later stated "Pat (Smullen, jockey & Crowley´s husband) was suspended and couldn´t ride Cheyenne Star but Seamie (Heffernan) gave her a lovely ride."

She added "Pat (Smullen) rides Cheyenne Star in her work and, after her last piece of work, he told me she´d win this. She is a lovely mare to train and may go to Goodwood now before having a tilt at the Group 1 Matron Stakes later in the year."

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.