Blarney Rose lights up extremely wet Boulta

Eugene O’Sullivan’s The Blarney Rose lit up yesterday’s extremely wet Boulta point-to-point fixture by destroying the opposition in the open lightweight.

On an afternoon that saw the committee doing extremely well to run off their nine-race card with ground conditions worsening as the programme neared a conclusion, last season’s champion mare The Blarney Rose (3/1) moved through to pick up the running on the approach to the third last of the 14 obstacles.

There was only going to be one outcome from two out as The Blarney Rose effortlessly maintained the tempo with regular partner Brendan Crowley, a First Year Economics student at UCC, to defeat Sinead O’Sullivan’s Castleview Mills by an unchallenged nine lengths in the colours of her rider’s father Stuart Crowley.