Starliner charts route to victory in Listowel

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This doesn't happen very often and this is massive as Listowel is our local track and festival. . The ground is so important to this fella and when we saw it coming we were delighted - I couldn't believe his price!. He is owned by a fantastic syndicate, from Tipperary, Limerick and Cork and they are gentlemen. We bought him cheaply enough, he has a great pedigree and could step up again. 

Kerryman Murphy rides first Listowel winner on Dragon Of Malta

He had won well at Galway and, while he didn't run so well at Roscommon, today he was perfect and I had a willing partner up the straight. I had previously ridden Free Solo at the Curragh, he led me and I found a nice run in the straight. I wasn't sure if we had won and Daniel King (denied in a close third on Brave Troop) has a valuable claim and I wasn't sure if he got up on the line. The O'Donnell family are from Co Limerick and not too far from here and I've known them for years, so it is great to ride a winner for them. Thank you to Pat Healy (Listowel committee) and Mark Enright (retired jockey) for organising this and it is great to be here. I spent lots of time as a child hanging around the weigh room wanting to be a jockey and to ride a winner here is a big relief. My mother (from nearby Killarney) is very excited and I'm sure she enjoyed this one!. Unfortunately I have other business commitments today and am at the Sales, but this is brilliant. The horse had good form and Mark (Enright, retired jockey) contacted me to say Oisin was available, so it was a no brainer to use him. I said to my wife that he was beaten turning in, but these good riders just find a way to win and he was fantastic. Oisin and my son Patrick go back a long way from when they went pony racing together, are friends and were also apprenticed together. The horse is owned by a great syndicate and this means an awful lot.

80/1 Maud Gonne Spirit takes Listed prize for Harrington

Nor Time Nor Tide a force to be reckoned with in Co Kerry

Spanish Tenor hits high notes at Listowel

We were going to run him in a claimer (in August), but he is such a great horse and we've had great fun with him. We bought him from a claimer and Cian has now won four times on him now and he has been a brilliant horse. He got an easy lead as no one took him on, he loves a bit of juice in the ground, this is a frontrunners track. We keep him sweet by doing a couple of days at the beach and I don't think he has had a gallop since the last day he ran - these horses have the ability to do it, but just need to be sweet. Every year he pays his way and will have a break at the end of the turf season.

Eastern Legend firmly in the shop window