Moonlight Boy overcomes slow start to post impressive win

The Aidan Kennedy-trained Moonlight Boy lit up Saturday’s rescheduled Kildorrery point-to-point fixture, which took place on the Vaughan family farm at Rockmills, by destroying the opposition in the closing six-year-old geldings’ maiden.

On an afternoon that witnessed seven races, the Boulta runner-up Moonlight Boy (6/1) lost quite considerable ground at the start. Colman Sweeney however refused to panic as Moonlight Boy got onto the tails of the main group after three fences. The winning son of Saffron Walden was always travelling with purpose and he moved through to challenge at the fourth last of the 14 obstacle, easing into the lead three out. It was all plain sailing from there with the winning son of Saffron Walden storming clear to beat the promising newcomer Tick Tock Tim by 10 lengths.

“This is a very nice horse and we could well look at the Pegus bumper for him at Cork over Easter, that’s provided that he’s not sold in the interim,” said handler Kennedy of Moonlight Boy, owned by his first-cousin Patrick Kennedy from Two-Mile-Borris.