Kilkenny Racing- Foley and Slaudeen score Saturday success on the track

Shane Foley and Jessica Harrington shared a 4/1 winner as Slaudeen landed the near six-furlong rated race at Navan on Saturday.

Coming from a little off the pace, the Alpha Racing-owned two-year-old got up in the final strides to pip Aidan O’Brien’s front-running 9/4 favourite Cactus by a neck.

The Turner Family-owned Ocean Of Mercy won the two and a half-mile beginners’ chase for trainer Paul Hennessy at Kilbeggan on Friday evening. Ridden by Niall Hennessy, the 7/2 chance led on the run to the final fence and he pulled away to win by seven and a half lengths from Gordon Elliott’s 9/1 shot Beaufort Scale.

Willie Mullins and County Tyrone’s Anna McGuinness supplied punters with a winning favourite in the shape of the five-year-old Zillow at Kilbeggan on Friday evening. A 9/4 chance in the colours of the HOS Syndicate, he landed the two-mile handicap hurdle when leading after the final hurdle to win by three and three-parts of a length from the Tony Mullins-trained 3/1 chance Paul’s Dream.

Shane Foley brought his season’s tally to 40 winners when sharing a double with Jessica Harrington at Gowran Park on Tuesday. The pair struck with the 16/1 chance Lavender Breeze which won the three-year-old maiden over seven furlongs by a neck from the Ger Lyons-trained 11/8 favourite Diego El Queso which was ridden by Colin Keane. An easier winner for punters to find was the 5/1 favourite Thrift Of Digby which completed the Harrington/Foley double in the eight-furlong handicap.

Owned by Pat Harty, the four-year-old recorded her second course win and her third in all when edging out Pat O’Donnell’s 20/1 shot Dragon Of Malta by a neck. The winners’ full-sister Gloriously Glam was successful earlier on the card for trainer Ado McGuinness.

The two-year-old Summer Is Tomorrow got both Joseph O’Brien and Dylan Browne McMonagle off to a flyer for the new week as he scored a narrow success in the opening median sires series race at Roscommon on Monday. In the familiar colours of Michael Burke, the 7/4 favourite came from a little off the pace and headed Dermot Weld’s 11/2 shot Red Autumn well inside the final furlong to win by three-parts of a length. O’Brien landed a second win as the Declan McDonogh-ridden Viking Invasion took the 10-furlong conditions’ race at odds of 7/1. Owned in partnership by Mark Dobbin and Edelle Logan, the three-year-old battled well from the two-furlong pole to pip Gavin Cromwell’s 11/10 favourite In My Teens by a neck.

Racing Diary
Today (Wednesday): Cork (first race 4.10pm).
Thursday: Clonmel (4pm).
Friday: Ballinrobe (3.55pm).
Saturday: Leopardstown (2.15pm).
Sunday: Curragh (1.30pm).