Clare filly wins Limerick Lady championship

LIMERICK is surely a lady as the Shannonside anthem proudly proclaims, but it took a filly from Clare to take the equine version of the title at the two day show held over the weekend at the region’s new racecourse near Patrickswell.

Anthony Moloney, Fair Hill, Feakle, won the Aughinish Limerick Lady championship with Raferagh Lilac, a two-year-old Irish Draught by Mourne Mountain Star out of Sycamore Blossom, bred by Owen Joe Duffy, Sycamore Stud in Monaghan, who has both the dam and the sire.

“I am absolutely thrilled,” said Anthony, who also won the Aughinish Alumina Irish National Draught two- year-old filly championship with the same animal, who was shown by Michael Feeney, O’Callaghan Mills, Co Clare.