Outsider overcomes '00000' form with Limerick win Gatehouse Boy overcame lifetime form-figures of ‘00000’ when causing a 28/1 upset in Limerick’s McMahons Builders Providers Handicap Hurdle (div I), scoring for trainer Philip Rothwell and last season’s champion conditional jockey Tiernan Power Roche. The five-year-old grey son of Great Pretender was beaten a cumulative total of 430 lengths in five previous runs - all in 2025, but today travelled well behind the leaders before improving to lead at the second-last, eventually beating Stily by 3.75 lengths. Rothwell wasn’t present and afterwards Power Roche revealed “he had been disappointing, as his work at home had been good so it was head-scratching why he wasn’t delivering. I was hoping he’d be in the shake-up today but the race fell apart and he stayed going. “He is a big raw green horse but seemed to come forward with every run and my 5lb claim was a help. He is still very raw and backward.”
