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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Scriptwriter wins 'French-style' maiden

Sat 18th Sep 2021, 15:01

Scriptwriter and Seamus HeffernanScriptwriter and Seamus Heffernan
© Photo Healy Racing

Scriptwriter quickened smartly to win Gowran's run-of-the-mill Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden today, completing a double for trainer Aidan O'Brien and impressing winning jockey Seamie Heffernan.

Scriptwriter, by Churchill, chased the leaders in fifth in the mile race and while Heffernan was hard at work, in fifth, entering the home straight, the pair flew home, powering past Adonis late-on to score by three parts of a length.

Heffernan's race-riding views are entertaining and enlightening in equal measure, and afterwards revealed “Irish racing is gone so much like French racing. If you don’t sit in the first four you need an explosive turn of foot. He won well at the line.

“We went a nice gallop and the best horse won. A mile is probably his minimum at the moment.

“Our two-year-olds are taking a bit of time this year but hopefully they are getting rolling now and they are winning.”

Scriptwriter, backed from 9/4 to 11/8f, was the second leg of a double for O'Brien, having won the opener with the Wayne Lordan partnered History

Quotes from Alan Magee

1st
11/8Fav
Tote €1.90 €1.30
2nd
0.75L
7/2
€1.60
3rd
0.5L
10/1
€2.80
4th
6.5L
2/1
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.