Macgiloney springs a surprise for Denis Hogan with Galway victory

Macgiloney and Denis Hogan jump the last to win the Deacy Gilligan Hurdle at Galway. Photo: Healy Racing

Macgiloney, trained and ridden by Denis Hogan, proved a shock winner of the feature Deacy Gilligan Hurdle at the opening session of Galway’s two-day September meeting.

Hogan reluctantly made the running on the eight-year-old, winner of a three-mile handicap hurdle at the festival on his most recent visit to Ballybrit, closely followed for most of the journey by eventual third Holymacapony.