Windswept track sees Tranquil storm home

ON the sort of windswept afternoon only a jump racing fan could endure, a horse owned by a Limerick farmer in partnership with a Kildare businessman made the headlines in Clonmel.

Tranquil Sea came home first in the biggest race of the year for the racecourse, when conditions around him could not have been any less tranquil.

Owned by Neilus Hayes from Limerick and Dermot Cox of Kildare, the horse breezed home in the Clonmel Oil chase but, in case anyone needed reminding in the near-horizontal rain and driving wind, it’s not all fun and games.