Sales-bound Knight impressesin maiden

The annual Inch point-to-point took place at its traditional Ballyanthony venue yesterday and, on a wind-swept afternoon that witnessed nine races, the Colin Bowe-trained Clondaw Knight (4/6) impressed by winning the first division of the four-year-old geldings’ maiden.

Clondaw Knight, who still led when falling two out in Talbot Road’s Monksgrange maiden just ten days earlier, made his move from the rear of the nine-runner field to take up the running at the penultimate of the 15 obstacles. It was all plain sailing from here with the winning son of Heron Island duly defeating the promising newcomer Chosen Dream by eight lengths.

“This fellow seems to go on any ground and we think that he’s good enough for a bumper. He will probably now go to some of the sales next month,” reported Bowe of his wife Fiona’s Clondaw Knight, a graduate of last year’s Goffs Land Rover sale that traces back to former Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup winner Galway Blaze.