Bertie’s dream comes true

SOMETHING had always told Bertie Broderick that his son Conor would own a racehorse one day and he was finally proven right a little under two years ago — just three days before he passed away.

Yesterday, that horse, which is named Bertie’s Dream in his honour, claimed the Albert Bartlett Novices’ Hurdle for Conor and the seven other members of the Half a Keg syndicate from Dublin.

“We bought him the April before last,” said Broderick who, like the rest of his celebrating partners all hail from the East Wall/Fairview side of the capital. “He didn’t even have a shoe on him. He was straight from the field. When I told him I’d bought him he said ‘I always dreamed you’d own a racehorse’.