Sweet success

LIVING in Canada, Co Donegal brothers David and Aaron Charles weren’t present to see their Maple Mons land the mares’ winners of the three but their father Ray, who bred the seven-year-old, was present as was their sister Aoife who was home from Scotland for the weekend.

In spite of running 10 times this season, Maple Mons has held her condition well with trainer David Christie explaining: “Between races, she never has a saddle on her but is just loose schooled. She really deserved that win having finished runner-up in her last five starts.”

Derrylin-based Christie is still on crutches, and will be for some time, having damaged his foot very badly riding none other than Maple Mons.

McCoy fans tune in

RACEGOERS were divided between watching the last race at Largy, which went off on time at 4.30pm, or, on Franco Hughes’s TV, the delayed 4.25pm from Sandown which brought the curtain down on the amazing career of Co Antrim-born jockey Tony McCoy.

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