Present View poised for better things
The Presenting-sired Present View (5/4 – evens), who fell when disputing the lead with Smiles For Miles in a two and a half mile Dromahane contest the previous Sunday, made all the running with Larry Murphy and had Ian Ferguson’s newcomer, Medieval Chapel, as his closest pursuer for most of the journey. It was apparent that the sweet-jumping Present View was well in command from the penultimate obstacle and he duly defeated the promising Medieval Chapel by 12 lengths with a ten-length gap to the third-placed Letbeso.
“This is a grand big, strong imposing horse and he just could be anything. My late father Liam bought him as a foal,” said Cashman of Present View, a May 1st foal that races in the colours of his mother Catherine.
Cashman and Murphy also combined to collect the first instalment of the same contest with another son of Presenting in the form of newcomer Present Lodger (evens). This mid-April foal arrived from off the pace to lead after the second last and he then came home with three lengths to spare over John Halley’s recent Rathcannon third Ultra Klass.
Paul Tobin was another in double form, with the Tallow amateur opening his account aboard Mike Condon’s homebred mare Mac Idol (11/2) in the Confined Hunt Maiden.
Mac Idol, a close relation to former top hurdler Deep Idol, took up the running after the second last and forged clear in the closing stages to contain Liam O’Donoghue’s Bright Idea.
Tobin brought up his two-timer aboard Garry Aherne’s Vintage Vixon (6/4) in the closing Five-Year-Old Mares’ Maiden.
The Pat Hughes-trained Teelin Star (4/7) vindicated the positive impression he created when recording an emphatic debut success at Kilworth on March 3rd by making all the running in the Winners Of One with Salsify’s Cheltenham Foxhunter winning rider Colman Sweeney.
The 2010 Cheltenham Foxhunter runner-up Kilty Storm (9/4) regained the winning thread with regular partner Declan Queally in the open lightweight.
Kilty Storm led until overtaken by Sinead O’Sullivan’s Castleview Mills after the second last. The veteran is nothing but tough and he regained command on the run to the final fence. With Castleview Mills unseating his rider when held in second spot, it was Kilcrea Castle that then came through for the runner-up slot, a distance adrift of the winning 13-year-old.
Trainer RJ McGrath is now toying with the idea of running the Sean Lucey-owned Kilty Storm in the Joseph O’Reilly Memorial Hunters Chase at Fairyhouse over Easter.
