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06 Sept 2025
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06 Sept 2025
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Rachael Blackmore chats with Robbie Power and Henry de Bromhead following the success of Slade Steel at Navan on Saturday. Photo: Patrick McCann/Racing Post
It has been a fantastic week of racing for Tipperary trainers, jockeys and horses with plenty of action across the week.
Trainer Andy Slattery landed a narrow success with the Cian Horgan-ridden Tarsus at Dundalk on Wednesday.
It was hardly the start to the fixture that punters would have hoped for as the 66/1 chance out battled Gavin Cromwell’s 3/1 shot Sorrento Sky to win by a head with the Pat Murphy-trained 85/40 favourite Mint Man only eighth of the 14 runners.
A neck was the winning margin as the Willie Browne-trained Port Augusta took the median auction race for two-year-olds over the same distance.
A winner, by an identical margin, over six furlongs last month, the Tracey Kearney-owned 100/30 chance followed up as he got the better of Jane Chapple-Hyam’s English challenger Finbar Furey, a 7/4 chance, under Seamie Heffernan.
Ger Lyons’ 11/8 favourite Serious Notions could only manage fourth place. Seamus O’Donnell took the opening division of the six-furlong handicap with Theriverrunsdeep which was ridden by Leigh Roche.
A 7/2 shot in the Ballinalard trainer’s own colours, the seven-year-old held the Leanne Breen-trained James Henry by a head to land her fourth course success and her first in almost exactly two years.
Rachael Blackmore was in the saddle as the Henry de Bromhead-trained Slade Steel won the Grade 2 Tote Navan Novice Hurdle at Navan on Saturday.
The Robcour-owned five-year-old battled well from the final hurdle to beat the Willie Mullins-trained Lecky Watson by half a length at odds of 2/1. Gordon Elliott’s 11/8 favourite Stellar Story was four and a half lengths further back in third place.
Upcoming Fixtures
Punchestown – Tuesday, December 12 (First Race 12 noon)
Dundalk – Wednesday, December 13 (First Race 3.15pm)
Naas – Thursday, December 14 (First Race 12 noon)
Dundalk – Friday, December 15 (First Race 5.15pm)
Fairyhouse – Saturday, December 16 (First Race 12 noon)
Navan – Sunday, December 17 (First Race 12 noon)
Thurles – Sunday, December 17 (First Race 12.15pm)
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