Horse Racing: Little Green claims the Grade II event at Fairyhouse
The feature of the Fairyhouse seven race card, the Grade II Winning Juvenile Hurdle was claimed by the champion racehorse Little Green. The race was run over a distance of 2 miles at the Fairyhouse racecourse.
The Fairyhouse meeting today was subject to a morning inspection that the racecourse passed and the meeting was given a go ahead. The inspection was prompted due to the 2 mm rainfall that the racecourse received last night. The officials of the Fairyhouse
course were delighted when they found out that the track was fit for racing event after the heavy rainfall.
The winner of the aforementioned race, Little Green started the race with an extraordinary pace. The field was closely bunched and thus the race was turned into a sprint event. As the field entered the straight, Little Green moved in to the winning
post.
On the other hand, the celebrated trainee of the trainer Charles O’Brien, Accidental Outlaw could not make it to the bunch of the competitors who were close to the finishing post. He was struggling to make a way through the last two contenders at the
final turn.
Towards the end of the race, four of the competitors struggled very hard to finish the race in the first place, as some of the spectators there described the scene as the racehorses being “virtually a breast of each other.” These four front runners
includes the names of Rocky Wednesday, who was the contender in the Gigginstown House Stud colours, the much cheered Fearless Falcon, Chaperoned and the winner Little Green. The other two horses were given a tough competition by Little Green and Chaperoned.
The winner Little Green was impressively ridden by the talented jockey Paul Towend. He was seen to have comfortably finished the race in the first spot, holding off Chaperoned and Rocky Wednesday in the second and third spots respectively.
Little Green was sent out to contend this event as a 13-2 favourite. He trains under the care of the trainer Eric McNamara, who claimed that this was a good enough maiden event for his young racehorse.
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