Floueur saunters to wide-margin Clonmel success
CRUISE CONTROL: Floueur leaves his rivals in his wake en route to an emphatic victory at Clonmel. Picture: Healy Racing
The Jim Strang & Sons Kilsheelan (Peugeot) Hurdle topped the bill on Thursday’s card in Clonmel and Floueur turned the race into a procession. Ridden by Davy Russell for trainer Gordon Elliott, who can do little wrong at present, the seven-year-old returned to something like his very best form.
Revelling in the testing conditions and, consequently, always travelling kindly, he hardly had to come out of second gear to hit the front with three to go. Asked to take control of the race going to two out, he sauntered clear and could afford to be eased after the last to record a wide-margin success from the staying-on Diol Ker.
