Ursa Major to crush competition with Harrison’s Cave for excelling in the Derby Festival Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Handicap
The Derby Festival Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund Handicap (Premier Handicap) has assembled a line-up of thirteen three-year and above runners who will invade the mile and four furlongs track so as to get entitled to the €42,000 prize money.
The event will be hosted by Curragh.
Backed by a recent success and an enviable performance at Curragh is, Ursa Major, Galileo’s three-year-old bay colt. The Thomas Carmody trained has put to show a remarkable potential for consistency which is reflected through the two wins and two second
scores in the four career ventures.
The bay colt qualified as the runner up in the Navan Lock & Key 3YO Maiden on 16th March, 2012 at Dundalk over a mile and two and a half furlongs. Ursa Major lost the chance by 2 ¼ lengths.
The three-year-old saw to it that the second try gave the connections a good reason to celebrate and thus won the Fund Raising Made Easy At Dundalk 3YO Maiden on 4th April, 2012. The race did not prove out to be effortless for the colt as he had
to escape defeat by a very narrow margin of a neck.
Foaled by Inchyre in 2009, he managed next to best in the Irish Stallion Farms European Breeders Fund 3YO (C&G) Race on 29th April at Navan over a mile and two furlongs.
Enjoying the margin of two lengths was the favourite winner, Athens.
On 10th June, 2012, Ursa Major landed the Chinese Irish Cultural Academy Handicap at Curragh over a mile and four furlongs. The favourite winner was seven lengths ahead in the field of eight, and finishing the closest was, Cropley.
His first victory was in partnership with jockey, Johnny Murtagh while during the next, he was paired up with B. A. Curtis.
He will be ridden by N. G. McCullagh today with the support of 3 to 1 odds and burst out from the fourth gate.
Owing to the third position in the Duke Of Edinburgh Handicap on 23rd June at the Ascot a mile and four furlongs, Harrison’s Cave seems to be the one to look out for, his 11 to 4 odds being all the more reason for staying vigilant.
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