A home run for the Babe

They knew. They just knew.

Rose and Tim O’Driscoll, who live in Glounthaune a few miles outside Cork city, along with neighbour and friend Tom Aherne, knew they had a live contender for this year’s Oaks in Skellig Babe. Oh boy, were they right!

“She was beaten in a final in Fermoy,” Tom explains, “But she qualified with a fierce fast time in Johnstown and Urlingford, very fast clocks, and we knew then — she was a bit special.”