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Tom Weekes

Tom Weekes

Successive wins for Team Slattery

Sat 24th Jun 2023, 20:29

Khafaaq and Cian HorganKhafaaq and Cian Horgan
© Photo Healy Racing

Bargain buy Khafaaq (9/1) notched a seventh career win today completing a Limerick double, and a third winner in succession, for his trainer Andy Slattery in the Follow Limerick On Twitter Handicap.

Bought for 5,000gns by current connections in 2018 as a once-raced Hamdam Al Maktoum-owned castoff, Khafaaq today added Limerick to his list of Cork, Dundalk, Gowran, Galway, Punchestown and Tipperary winning racecourses, scoring under jockey Cian Horgan.

Slattery had been successful with earlier winner Independent Expert in yesterday's Down Royal's finale and at Hexham last Saturday and at Limerick the trainer's brother and assistant Brian Slattery said “we're getting spoilt with these winners!

“We won the last race at Down Royal yesterday and while Roy (Collins, Khafaaq's owner) is actually from Down Royal, wasn't there yesterday as he was driving a digger. He is staying down here this weekend so we're delighted for him.

“Khafaaq seems rejuvenated and he ran a cracker in a claimer the last day when he was in to be claimed for €8,000 but fortunately he wasn't bought.”

1st
9/1
Tote €10.60 €2.60
2nd
1.5L
7/1
€2.70
3rd
nk
40/1
€23.60
4th
hd
50/1
bf
hd
11/4Fav
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.