Alfa does the business again

ALFA BEAT, successful in the race a year earlier, did the business again when storming to victory in yesterday’s Guinness Kerry National at Listowel.

In 2010 he was trained by Charles Byrnes, but was bought at the sales at Doncaster for £75,000 and is now in the care of Shark Hanlon, who was enjoying his biggest success to date.

He is owned by American, Irvin S. Naylor, after Hanlon had been asked by Tom Foley — who trains for Naylor in the States — to find a possible English National horse.