Hat-Trick for First-Timers in Bumpers The heavy summer schedule affords lesser known names to grab the limelight and this was certainly the case in the week past with three bumpers in a row going to jockeys registering their first winner. Tony Kelly started the sequence on Monday night at Roscommon as he got his father Pat´s Dr Proctor home a narrow victor of the Denbren Homes Quality Developments (C & G) Flat Race. Kelly had previously taken a point-to-point also for his home team on King Maxie at Roscommon in November of 2006. On Tuesday it was the turn of Danielle Quinlan to join forces with her Dad, Paddy, and their own mare Gortnahulla. This one didn´t go unbacked and after making the running, the 9/2 shot showed plenty of courage to regain the lead a furlong out having been headed at the quarter mile pole, going on to beat Estuary Princess by three lengths in the Tote Price Promise Mares (Ladies) Flat Race. Yesterday at Fairyhouse, it was a Grand-Father and Grand-son that combined successfully in the Ratoath Flat Race. Andrew Latta, aboard William Powell-Harris´ Fairy Field smoothly made his sixth start under Rules a winning one when proving two lengths superior to Would You Do That. This Perugino gelding is trained by John Kiely. Latta was the top young show-jumper of the year three years back but has now turned his attentions to racing and he is based with Jessica Harrington. With two point-to-point winners also in the bag, the Wexford man plans to go professional later in the summer. Not surprisingly given the family involvement in each case, on the seventeen occasions that these three horses have appeared in public, nobody else has been in the plate on the trio other than Kelly, Quinlan and Latta.
