Martin works Hurdle oracle again

Tony Martin’s ability to effectively target a feature handicap scaled new heights yesterday afternoon as the Meath trainer again landed Ireland’s richest National Hunt race, the Guinness Galway Hurdle, with Quick Jack, and would almost certainly have had three of the first four home had last year’s winner, Thomas Edison, not taken a tumble at the final flight.

Martin works Hurdle oracle again

Runaway winner of the qualified riders’ race on the Monday of last year’s Festival, Quick Jack boasted a progressive profile in the interim on the Flat, but got into the handicap off a very low weight.

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