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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Same Again for Eastwood and Flynn!

Wed 4th Jan 2023, 16:49

Cheers Again and Jack Cleary are clearCheers Again and Jack Cleary are clear
© Photo Healy Racing

Trainer Paul Flynn has high hopes but revised plans for Cheers Again (5/6f) who today defied a 16lb hike from the handicapper to complete consecutive wins, in Dundalk's Irishinjuredjockeys.com Apprentice Handicap.

Rory Cleary did the steering when Cheers Again landed a gamble at the track on December 14 and today nephew Jack Cleary partnered John Eastwood's gelding to another easy, four lengths win from Reverberation

Cheers Again was rated 47 when winning in December and 63 today, with Flynn saying “he won again, but I was hoping to stay below 70!”

“I had a plan in mind but I'll have to change it now and he won't run again until the turf. He was going to go to Leopardstown, as I think he'll love it there, but he'll have to go for a different race now.

The Coral Cup-winning jockey and Galway Hurdle-winning trainer added “he's a big horse and he'll improve again - he could be a good horse.”

Quotes from Gary Carson

1st
5/6Fav
Tote €1.84 €1.10
2nd
4L
14/1
€4.40
3rd
0.75L
22/1
€6.70
4th
hd
11/2
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.