Dynamite delivers as part of McNamara’s treble Trainer Eric McNamara registered a cross-card treble today, with the second of his three wins being well-backed Hees Dynamite (morning 6/1, returned 3/1f in Killarney’s Brehon Hotel & Spa Handicap Chase. Earlier successful with Flat juvenile debutante Solomon Island at Leopardstown, McNamara’s Hees Dynamite made use of his light weight of 9st 9lb when scoring under jockey Gary Noonan, by 2.5 lengths from Pride Of Place. The Grade 1-winning trainer reported “the biggest concern was with his jumping but, from the outset, Gary got him into a lovely rhythm and the horse jumped super. He was rated to win it and getting so much weight for Enda Bolger’s (26lb, runner-up Pride Of Place) was the key to it. He won well. “He stays three miles so there are options to go up in trip.” Regarding his earlier Leopardstown winner Solomon Island, he added “we are thrilled with that and I own him myself, so he is for sale. We have just three two-year-olds, he is the first of them to run and looked a bit special all along. We are over the moon with him. “During the year I wanted to sell him if someone would pay the training fees but Conor said ‘no, you’re keeping him as you’ll get a few quid for him some day’. Conor (who was injured at today’s course in May) has his back brace off now and is doing physio in RACE in Kildare. Hopefully he’ll be back in two months.” McNamara later completed his Killarney double, and cross-card treble with the Sean Flanagan-partnered Embittered.
