Irish Derby runner-up for sale online next Monday

LONE Eagle, runner-up in the 2021 Irish Derby, will be offered for sale on Goffs Online next Monday (November 21st). The four-year-old entire son of Galileo was a 500,000gns yearling.

Trained by Martyn Meade, he won three times as a two-year-old, including a Group 3 contest. He won a good listed race at three before finishing a neck second to Hurricane Lane in the Curragh classic. His three starts this season yielded one third placing in a listed race. The timed auction starts at noon on Monday and closes from noon on Tuesday.

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Jessica Cahalan gets

Laytown manager job

JESSICA Cahalan is the new secretary/manager of Laytown Races. She succeeds Kevin Coleman who retired from the post this year after 25 years in the job. Cahalan has held administrative roles with trainers Tom Hogan and David Wachman and currently with Denis Hogan.

Cahalan is also secretary for the Ormond Hunt and manages their annual two-day point-to-point meeting.

Trainer fined €2,500

NAAS trainer Thomas Dowling has been fined €2,500 and lost a winner following a Referrals Committee hearing.

His runner Starlight Rose tested positive for omeprazole following its win at Down Royal on July 22nd.

Omeprazole is commonly used to treat racehorses with gastric ulcers but is prohibited in raceday samples.

The trainer told the Referrals Committee he did not give the product Gastrogard to the horse within 72 hours of the race and suggested there may have been cross-contamination but the Referrals Committee were unsatisfied with his explanation.

The race was awarded to the Andy Oliver-trained Regally Blonde, ridden by Billy Lee, who now ends the season two winners behind champion Colin Keane.

New sponsor for

€100,000 chase

RACE and Stay, Ireland’s largest horse racing tours company founded in 2012 by Martyn Pipe, will sponsor the €100,000 handicap chase over an extended two miles at the Dublin Racing Festival for the next three years.