Foxtrot Charlie continues Weld’s rich vein of form

Foxtrot Charlie continued the rich vein of form being enjoyed by Dermot Weld and Pat Smullen when beating his elders in the listed Coral.ie Glencairn Stakes in Leopardstown last night.

The three-year-old English Channel colt, second leg of a double for the Weld/Smullen combination, dug deep to see off favourite Tennessee Wildcat by a length, giving Weld his first stakes-race success for American owner-breeder Brad Kelley of Calumet Farms.

A delighted Weld acknowledged: “It was a pleasing performance and I’m very pleased for Calumet – this is my first stakes winner for them. He’s a colt with a good attitude and he needed it, facing older horses for the first time.