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Mark Nunan

Mark Nunan

Yorkhill makes it ten for the week for Mullins

Sun 4th Aug 2019, 17:39

 YORKHILL, after easily winning the Watch Racing TV Now Chase, with jockey Paul Townend and groom Rachel Robbins. YORKHILL, after easily winning the Watch Racing TV Now Chase, with jockey Paul Townend and groom Rachel Robbins.
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Yorkhill (6/4 fav) was always in his comfort zone as he easily landed the Watch Racing TV Now Chase to give Willie Mullins a tenth winner of Festival week at Galway.

Having unseated Paul Townend early on In the Galway Plate on Wednesday, the Presenting nine-year-old travelled strongly throughout on this occasion, cruised to the front after the two fences in the dip and ran on to score by three lengths from staying-on stablemate Some Neck (10/3). Valseur Lido (5/1) made a lot of the running and plugged on for third a further two lengths back.

This success brought Yorkhil’ls career tally to ten wins from twenty-one starts, while Townend ended the Galway festival with a score of six winners from thirteen rides.

The winning trainer Willie Mullins stated: “He could go for the Kerry National at Listowel, and going left-handed would suit him better. That rain probably helped him as well.

“I’m very happy with the way the week has gone. It went way better than expected as I didn’t think we had as many chances this year as we had last year.

“There has been a good mix of jockeys winning for us with Paul (Townend), Patrick and David (Mullins), Jodi (Townend) and Kevin Manning.

“It was great to win a few of the feature races, and it was nice that a lot of owners did well also.”

Additional reporting by Alan Magee

About Mark Nunan
Mark has followed racing since he was a teenager and worked for many years as a broadcaster with the Irish version of Racecall. He joined the Press Association in 2019 and is also a contributor to the Racing Post. A native of Kildare, he now lives in Sligo.