Danny has That winning Feeling in Listowel finale That Danny Feeling won the final race of the 2025 Listowel Festival when staying on strongly under Alan O'Sullivan to win the Listowel Printing Works Slan Abhaile (Pro/Am) INH Flat Race. Third on his racecourse debut in a maiden hurdle at the corresponding meeting last year, the Terence O'Brien trained gelding reverted to bumper company to fill the same position at Galway next time. Off the mark at Killarney in May of this year, the gelding was twice placed in recent starts. Sent off a 9/2 chance here, That Danny Feeling headed leader Parnell Street over two furlongs out, keeping on well to win by one-and-three-quarter lengths. Terence O'Brien said: "he had been very consistent all along and Alan's 7lb claim was a big help. Alan was very impressed, he said he settled and was very easy on himself and travelled well the whole way. He said he wasn't doing a stroke in front and felt he had plenty left. "He was due to go over hurdles but his jumping was terrible and I don't know why. We did some more schooling with him and were going to enter him over hurdles but, as it turned out, this week's maidens were probably some of the hottest races here. "I bought his dam, who is out of a sister to Synchronised, but never got to race her and then I bred this horse, before selling the mare. "The syndicate are all good friends of mine so this is a great result." Additional reporting by Thomas Weekes.
