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Connolly's RED MILLS Irish EBF Auction Maiden Hurdle (IRE Incentive Race)

Distance: 2m3f172y

Going: Good

Prize: €11,800

Runners: 7

Winning time: 4m 58.70s

Age: 4yo+

Class:

3 Scalpnagoon

J: Danny Gilligan

T: Gordon Elliott

Age: 5

Weight: 11st 8lbs

OR: -

SP: 15/8

Didn't always jump with fluency - prominent - led after 1st - raced in second before 4th - led again 2 out - ridden and kept on well after last - pushed out(op 13/8 tchd 2/1)

2 1¼

5 Happy Me

J: Ben Harvey

T: W J Burke

Age: 5

Weight: 11st 6lbs

OR: 103

SP: 5/2

In touch with leaders - headway and prominent on near side of group 2 out - soon went second - kept on when hung left run-in - no match for winner (jockey said gelding hung left after jumping the last)(op 4/1)

3 10 11¼

1 Romany Brown

J: Jack Doyle

T: P M J Doyle

Age: 5

Weight: 12st 0lbs

OR: -

SP: 13/8F

Took keen hold - didn't always jump with fluency - in touch with leaders - dropped to rear after 4th - prominent on inner before 2 out - no extra when left in third last - no match for first two(op 11/10)

4 2 13¼

8 Written In My Soul

J: Harry Sexton(7)

T: E D Delany

Age: 5

Weight: 10st 13lbs

OR: -

SP: 40/1

Led early - prominent after 1st - jumped slightly left 5th - lost position but in touch with leaders after 6th - outpaced and dropped to last after 3 out - headway before 2 out - left in modest fourth when hampered by faller last(op 50/1)

5 6 19¼

7 Only You Norah

J: Niall Moore(7)

T: Donal Commins

Age: 5

Weight: 11st 1lbs

OR: 89

SP: 50/1

Prominent - weakened after 3 out(op 80/1)

6 4½ 23¾

2 Big Dispute

J: Phillip Enright

T: Con McSweeney

Age: 6

Weight: 11st 10lbs

OR: -

SP: 20/1

Didn't always jump with fluency - in rear - bumped 1st - jumped path before 5th - headway and pressed leader after 3 out - hung left and weakened before 2 out(op 33/1 tchd 18/1)

6 Initiateur

J: Kevin A Murphy(7)

T: L J Archdeacon

Age: 7

Weight: 11st 6lbs

OR: -

SP: 33/1

Jumped left - didn't always jump with fluency - in rear early - bumped rival 1st - pulled way into lead before 4th - hung left on turn before 5th - soon clear - headed 2 out - weakening and raced in third when fell last(op 66/1 tchd 100/1)

Attaboyarchie

J: Miss E J Sweeney(7)

T: Karl Thornton

Age: 8

Weight: 11st 6lbs

OR: 111

SP: -

Betting breakdown

Tote win: €2.88

Tote place: €1.30 €1.20

Exacta: €6.90

Trifecta: €14.40

CSF: €6.93