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Michael Graham

Michael Graham

Against The Breeze blasts home in Dundalk

Fri 21st Oct 2016, 21:18

Against The Breeze gets her first career victoryAgainst The Breeze gets her first career victory
© Photo Healy Racing

Against The Breeze popped up at 16/1 for Niall and Tom Madden in the apprentice handicap over a mile in Dundalk.

The grey filly raced in rear of mid-division in this 13-runner heat before making headway to close on the leaders approaching the final furlong.

She finished well to wear down Twistsandturns in the closing stages and win by a length and a quarter.

Twistsandturns (7/1) was a neck in front of third-placed Easy Boy (16/1).

Niall Madden said: “That was great. I’m delighted she’s won for me.

“She had been running well. She ran well at the Curragh when second and I thought that day she had a chance of winning a race.

“She might go back jumping now.”

Rossa Ryan, the national pony racing champion of 2016, had his first racecourse ride on board Specific Gravity who came in sixth.

Ryan is 16 and from Currafin, Co Galway.

Additional reporting by Gary Carson

About Michael Graham
Michael has worked in horse racing journalism for more than 15 years, having also written a weekly betting column on Gaelic football and hurling for a newspaper. He is involved in writing the My Racing Story features on this website. He spent a year in South Africa completing a Diploma in Business Administration and also studied Newspaper Journalism in Belfast. He enjoys playing 5-a-side football on a regular basis.