Top few days for Tipperary jockeys and trainers as winners clocked up

It was a successful few days for Tipperary jockeys and trainers as they clocked up the winners in style last weekend. Rachael Blackmore and Henry de Bromhead shared their second winner of the week as Tag Man landed the three-mile conditions’ hurdle at Down Royal on Friday evening.

The Roger Brookhouse-owned 9/4 chance led passing the omitted final hurdle and stayed on to beat Charles Byrnes’ 4/6 favourite Run For Oscar by a length and a half.

Aidan O'Brien rattled off three quick Ryan Moore-ridden winners to open proceedings at the Curragh on Saturday. The 2/11 favourite Acapulco Bay was their first of the day as he took the eight-furlong maiden in good style.

Making all the running he came home a length and three-parts to the good over his own stable companion Genealogy, a 13/2 chance ridden by Wayne Lordan.

The Group 3 Newtownanner Stud Irish EBF Stakes went the way of the 6/5 favourite Dreamy which made it two wins from as many starts when scoring by a length and a half from the Gavin Cromwell-trained Fiery Lucy with Mark Prescott’s raider Alla Stella a shorthead away in third place.

Ides Of March ran out a far easier winner of the Group 3 Heider Family Stables Round Tower Stakes to complete a treble for O'Brien and Moore. A 2/5 favourite, he made much of the running and went clear a furlong from the finish to beat Donnacha O'Brien’s Usdi Atohi by a comfortable three and a quarter lengths.

Moore then outdid his trainer when making it four winners on the day as he got Joseph O'Brien’s 22/1 chance Wigmore Street up on the line to win the €100,000 Irish Cambridgeshire.

The four-year-old came from the rear of the field inside the final furlong and a half to pip the Bill Farrell-trained 5/1 favourite State Actor by a head with the Andy Slattery-trained 50/1 chance Independent Expert a nose away in third place.