Maxwell Smart gets a second win to his name Runner-up over course and distance on the first day of this two-day future in 2025, Maxwell Smart went on better in the first division of Bellewstown’s BOYLE Sports Handicap over a mile and a half. Towards the rear early on and pushed along at stages by James Ryan, the five-year-old, owned by Mrs Pauline McCourt, the Whyte's Stamullen Syndicate, Donal O'Leary and James McNally, improved to lead over a furlong out. He stayed on well to account for Anightaway by four and a quarter lengths. Winning trainer Tom McCourt explained "He was just getting outpaced all year - even there, for a lot of it, he was outpaced. He's just an odd horse, he won't race up into the back of horses but, once he got him out wide, he picked up well. "He's a quirky sort of a horse, but definitely the slow ground was a help. "We'll go over hurdles with him; we will keep him on the go. He's had a couple of very good runs over hurdles as well, but I just wouldn't run him on too quick a ground over them. He'll tip away up to Christmas, Down Royal and those places. "He's a fun horse - a grand, sound horse. The ground would be a big thing to him." Additional reporting by Michael Graham
