Three from three for Maguire

TRAINER Adrian Maguire ran three horses at yesterday’s Bandon point-to-point at Kilpatrick and remarkably the former Gold Cup winning jockey went away with three winners.

Monty Blue (4/1-7/2) was the Laharn Cross operator’s second winner in the five-year-old geldings’ maiden. Patiently ridden by Colman Sweeney, the triumphant newcomer only commenced his move from the third last of the 13 obstacles. Monty Blue, an Overbury-sired gelding out of a half-sister to Denman, effortlessly took up the running after the penultimate obstacle to account for De Pedlar by six lengths.

Monty Blue, a €22,000 graduate of the 2005 Goffs Land Rover sale, carries the colours of Mallow owner William Crowley.