Double wraps up trainers’ title for Tyner
He now leads Colin Bowe by five (29 – 24) with just two days racing at Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary, left in the current season.
Tyner will have attained immense satisfaction from the success of Presenting Rebel (4/5) in the winners of two contest for the race was staged in memory of his son Jack who died as a result of injuries sustained in a raceriding fall last year.
Presenting Rebel, who was fitted with cheekpieces, gave his many supporters near heart palpitations by almost coming to grief at the first of the 12 fences.
Derek O’Connor however sat tight and he produced the victorious six-year-old to lead after three out. Whilst Coursey Rover, winner of the four-mile open here the previous evening, held every chance at the second last, Presenting Rebel quickened clear on the flat to dismiss Paul Patrick Moloney’s charge by one and a half lengths with a 12-length gap to the third-placed Doheny Bar.
“This horse is still improving and if he’s not sold, he will now either go for a hurdle or a chase,” reported Tyner of Presenting Rebel, sporting the silks of the Patient Syndicate.
Tyner doubled up courtesy of the recent Sligo third Fernando (9/2) in the lady riders open.
Fernando, owned by his trainer’s long-standing patron Maurice Kelleher from Riverstick, made all the running with Aine O’Connor.
It was plainly apparent that the odds-on favourite Nedzer’s Return was fighting a losing battle from two out with the market leader returning seven lengths adrift of the eight-year-old Fernando, who may now be offered at the August sale in Doncaster.
Colin Bowe kept his supporters happy by collecting the opening four-year-old maiden with Pure Style (3/1 – 5/2).
Runner-up at Inchydoney the previous Sunday, Pure Style was sent to the front by Barry O’Neill with two fences remaining and the ultra-consistent son of Desert Style then bounded clear to beat the promising Part And Parcel by five lengths in the colours of US-domiciled Cormac Farrell.
Pure Style will now be targeted at a bumper in six weeks time.
The former point-to-point champion rider Tim O’Callaghan sent out Willowhill Warrior (3/1 – 5/2) to capture the closing seven-year-old and upwards geldings’ maiden in the hands of Ciaran Fennessy, who was recording his initial success of the weekend.
Willowhill Warrior, owned and bred by Martin O’Callaghan, readily took up the running at the second last and he eased clear in the closing stages to dispose of Jayne Hearne’s Em Bucc Eightysix by three lengths.
