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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Abbey Glen completes double

Sat 2nd Apr 2011, 17:04

Abbey Glen followed up his recent win at Navan in the Thomastown Handicap Hurdle at Gowran today, winning for trainer Christy Roche and jockey Alan Crowe.

The son of Presenting was winning his third hurdle and Frank Berry (Racing Manager to the horse’s owner J.P. McManus) later stated “it’s great to get another win with Abbey Glen seeing as he was off so long earlier in his career.”

“Better ground seems to have made the difference with him and he came out of his Navan win so well we decided to run here. We weren’t sure about him staying three miles but he saw it out well.”

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.