Listowel tips: Old Faithful can make it a winning homecoming for Oisin Murphy
READY TO RULE: Blues Emperor can win the listed Edmund & Josie Whelan Memorial Listowel Stakes for Johnny Murtagh and Ben Coen. Picture: Inpho/Tom Maher
The Flat brigade descends upon Listowel for day three of the Harvest Festival and jockey Oisin Murphy, who is returning home to take up four rides on the card, can ensure at least one winner by taking the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Rated Race aboard the Aidan O’Brien-trained Old Faithful.
Third to stablemate and subsequent Group 2 winner Diego Velazquez on debut, the selection then went to Gowran Park for a maiden and filled the same spot behind Instant Appeal and Starliner. On the latter occasion, he didn’t enjoy much luck in running in the closing stages and is certainly better than the bare result might suggest.
