Tudor City lands remarkable second Galway Hurdle of career
DOUBTYA BOY: TUDOR CITY gets a kiss from jockey Liam McKenna after they won for owner John Breslin and trainer Tony Martin.
To win a Guinness Galway Hurdle is any jockey’s dream, but to do so on your first ride of the season on your return from an injury would seem beyond the realm of possibility. Not so for Liam McKenna, who did just that aboard Tudor City, a horse winning the race for the second time and giving trainer Tony Martin his fourth win in the last nine runnings of the race.
McKenna was returning from a broken collar bone sustained at the last fence in the Irish Grand National, in April. If that weren’t enough, at ten years of age, time was also not on the horse’s side and history was against him as he attempted to become the first of his age to win the race since 1947.
