Successful week for O’Brien and Lordan

Aidan O'Brien and Wayne Lordan were among the winners as the three-year-old Get landed the 11-furlong fillies’ maiden at Killarney last week.

A 9/2 chance, she led early in the straight and raced to a two and a quarter-length success over the Paddy Twomey-trained Elana Osario, with Joseph O'Brien’s odds-on favourite Radar Ahead the same distance away in third place.

Nenagh’s Tom Hogan won the concluding 11-furlong maiden with the Billy Lee-ridden Cast A Spell. The six-year-old battled well inside the final furlong to pip the Harry Kelly-trained Nelson Muntz, ridden by Wayne Hassett, by a shorthead at odds of 5/4. The Joseph O'Brien-trained favourite Realism was a length and a half away in third place.

David Doyle added to his winner at Tipperary two days earlier when landing the concluding bumper on the Shark Hanlon-trained 40/1 chance Reiki Revolution at Galway on Tuesday. The Moyne amateur was in the saddle as the joint-outsider of the eight-runner field raced to an eight-length success over Henry de Bromhead’s Time In A Bottle, an eighth career victory for the winning rider.

The rewarding partnership of Aidan O'Brien and Wayne Lordan yielded another winner as the odds-on favourite Isambard Brunel scored an easy win in the eight-furlong maiden for two-year-olds at Navan on Wednesday. He made all the running for a cosy three and a half-length win over Andy Oliver’s Red King with the Dylan Browne McMonagle-ridden Light As Air in third place for the champion trainer.

Kevin Coleman and Robbie Colgan won the opening division of the 10-furlong handicap with the Eileen Coleman-owned Calzaghi. The 7/1 shot lost ground to his rivals on leaving the stalls but he was well on top inside the final furlong as he scored by an easy two and a quarter lengths from the Adrian Murray-trained Special Angel.

Aidan O'Brien and Wayne Lordan brought their tally for the week to four winners with a shared double at Thurles on Thursday. Both winners were returned at odds on with 5/6 favourite Mint Candy taking the two-year-old maiden over eight furlongs by an easy two and a half lengths from Jessica Harrington’s Joyful Princess and Autumn Winter, a 4/6 favourite, scoring by one and a half lengths from the Joe Murphy-trained Dark Oak in the three-year-old’s 12-furlong handicap, the winner’s first outing since Royal Ascot in June.

Two of the three contenders for the apprentice championship rode winners on the day. Adam Caffrey remained at the head of affairs when winning on the Ado McGuinness-trained Skontonovski and Wayne Hassett moved within one of Caffrey’s lead when landing the first of the 12-furlong handicaps on the Gavin Cromwell-trained Londonofficecallin. Owned by the In Bounds Syndicate, the odds-on favourite, formerly trained by Eric McNamara, scored on his first start for the Navan trainer when getting the better of the Ken Budds-trained Tastyee.

Hassett ended the day on 27 winners for the season, the same as James Ryan, the pair trailing Caffrey by the minimum margin.

Philip Fenton and Gortnahoe’s Niall More combined to take the near two-mile handicap chase with 4/1 chance Lake Chad at Tramore on Thursday. Always up with the pace, the Eileen Moore-owned nine-year-old led before the second-last fence and comfortably got the better of the Charles Coakley-trained Cool Arcade by two and three-parts of a length, his third success over fences.

Unplaced at Thurles the previous afternoon, the Denis Hogan-trained Church Mountain won the 10-furlong apprentice handicap at Dundalk on Friday. Ridden by Jack Kearney for owner Joseph Kelly, the 11/2 shot came from off the pace to lead inside the final furlong and at the line he had a length and a quarter to spare over Kieran Cotter’s Koniag.

Gavin Ryan took the riding honours at Naas on Saturday where he recorded a treble, made up of two winners for Donnacha O'Brien and one for the latter’s father Aidan.

Ryan kicked off with an all-the-way success on the Aidan O'Brien-trained Galveston in the opening eight-furlong maiden for two-year-olds. The Ger O’Leary-trained favourite Local Lad emerged as the biggest threat indie the final furlong, but he couldn’t get to the front-running 100/30 chance which prevailed by half a length.

The winning jockey followed up straight away on the Donnacha O'Brien-trained favourite Uncanny which raced up with the pace and led over a furlong from the finish to beat the Johnny Murtagh-trained Lady Pagasa by an easy five and a half lengths. Ryan’s treble, and Donnacha O'Brien’s double, came up in the concluding seven-furlong fillies’ maiden as the 7/1 shot Whispersinthewind headed Jim Bolger’s favourite Finsceal Luas inside the final furlong to score by half a length.

Aidan O'Brien and Wayne Lordan were winners again on Sunday as the 2/9 favourite Bounty ran away with the near six-furlong maiden for two-year-olds at Naas. She led after halfway and eased clear to win by four and a half lengths from the Johnny Murtagh-trained Iceford, a first ride back for Ben Coen as he returned to action after sustaining a broken collar bone in a fall at Navan five weeks previously.

The concluding 10-furlong handicap went the way of Cloud Seeker which was ridden for trainer Andy Slattery by his son Andrew. The Pat Garvey-owned 9/2 chance made most of the running and comfortably held the Michael Halford & Tracey Collins-trained Lord Church, the favourite, by half a length.

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