Dunboyne has Troytown as main early season target Trainer Ian Donoghue believes that stable star Dunboyne has every chance of progressing further this season. With that in mind, the County Meath based trainer has identified the Troytown Chase as his first major target of the new campaign. Having being pulled up on all four starts the previous year, the son of Yeats was reinvigorated by a switch to Donoghue last term. A winner on his stable debut oreinver hurdles at Navan in March, the gelding won the Ulster National on his second start, before signing off with an excellent fourth placed finish in the Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse in April. Given his ability to run well fresh, Donoghue is hoping to have the now 10-year-old ready for one of the first big handicaps of the new season: "Not a bother on him. I got a video of him there last week, he's good and fat out in the field, so he's coming in now in 10 days and we'll go again hopefully. Stephen (O'Connor, owner) has him out. "He'll come back in, one run over hurdles and the Troytown hopefully. He has run well in it before and, I think if we get him there in the same nick as he was for us here in the Ulster National and in Fairyhouse for the Irish National, I think he'll take plenty of beating in it. "Unreal, a great horse. I'd love to have a yard full of him. He has put me on the map and I've got plenty of owners because of him, and I'm looking forward to getting him back in." Additional reporting by Michael Graham.
