O’Grady may aim Shot at National

Edward O’Grady’s Shot From The Hip could have earned himself a tilt at the Guinness Kerry National at Listowel on September 18 after his convincing success at Killarney on Friday.

A Grade One winner as a novice hurdler, the JP McManus-owned nine-year-old sprung a 14-1 surprise when in the hands of Mark Walsh he accounted for Another Ambition by all of eight and a half lengths in the extended two-and-a-half-mile Ladbrokes Handicap Chase.

O’Grady said: “He seems fine since. He’ll certainly get an entry in the Kerry National but there is a conditions race there (at the Listowel Festival) as well.