'They rang me looking for a cheap horse' - Son cheered home at Roscommon Hitthehayson got a great reception at Roscommon after making a winning start for trainer Ian Donoghue. The Jukebox Jury gelding went to post an 11/2 shot in the Sweeney Oil Handicap Hurdle and went to the front over the fifth flight for Conor Stone-Walsh. He stuck on well in the closing stages to post a four-and-three-quarter length win over Live To Laugh. The winner was cheered back in by the ManAboutHorse Syndicate and Donoghue said:- “That’s great. Philip Rothwell said to me in Downpatrick that he was in an online sale and he would do me no harm. We took his word and we bought him. “It’s the boys’ first horse with me, they are all from Wexford and they are good craic. I think they had a few point-to-pointers before with Denis Murphy, one of them is related to him. “They rang me looking for a cheap horse for the craic and we fell on him so it worked out well. “I was confident coming here today, the only thing I was worried about was that two-and-a-half miles might be a bit sharp for him so we had to make plenty of use of him. “I think stepping up to three miles now he’ll be a nice horse. “He’s lazy and he’s the sort of horse that you wouldn’t really know how much he still has. “He’ll get a go all winter and if he’s not handling soft ground we’ll give him a break. He’ll be a good fun horse for the boys. It’s their first horse in that syndicate so they’re lucky.”
