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Coolcullen's 'Club' warm up for Royal Ascot

Club Wexford and Kevin ManningClub Wexford and Kevin Manning
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Trainer Jim Bolger and stable jockey Kevin Manning warmed up for Royal Ascot tomorrow with a win with Club Wexford in the Panoramic Restaurant Rated Race at Naas today.

Club Wexford had won previously at Limerick in April but that success had been his first since winning his maiden at Leopardstown in June 2013,

Wexford-native but Coolcullen, Co Kilkenny based Bolger today explained “he got a fracture the day he won his two-year-old maiden in Leopardstown but it was successfully screwed and he's had no bother since, but because it happened on good to firm we had kept him to yielding or softer.

“The last day he won (on fast ground at Limerick in May) we took a chance and it worked; the horse himself has no objection to it, we were just being careful.

“I'd say seven (furlongs) or a mile is his trip; over six it just happens a bit quick for him.”

Tomorrow, Bolger and Manning combine with a pair of runners, Turret Rocks in the Duke Of Cambridge Stakes and Bean Feasa in the Sandringham Handicap, while the Derby winning jockey also takes the ride on the Brian Meehan trained Bacchus.

Quotes from Gary Carson

1st
7/2
Tote €3.60 €1.10
2nd
1.25L
2/1Fav
€1.30
3rd
hd
11/2
€1.70
4th
0.5L
12/1
About Tom Weekes
A lifelong racing fan, Tom began writing point to point reports in 2002 and has reported for irishracing.com since 2003, when he joined Irish Racing Services - since taken over by the Press Association. Has ridden a point to point winner and won the 2018 Irish Field Naps Table.