Takeover Bid gets O’Callaghan off the mark

NIALL O’CALLAGHAN, who trained at Louisville, Kentucky for 28 years, enjoyed a first success in his native country when Takeover Bid landed the Newmarket Handicap at Cork yesterday.

O’Callaghan is now based at Kilmichael, Co Cork, has been training in Ireland for about a year and has 20 horses in his care.

The impressive Ben Curtis was in the plate and gave the four-year-old a tremendous drive.