All eyes were naturally on the two Boylesports Irish Derby semi finals where ante post favourite Coolavanny Hoffa made his exit.
Although Callaway Pro Am’s 29.64 was slower than another couple of race winners, the confirmed front runner had to win the hard way and remains the only unbeaten animal in the event: 13 races, 10 wins, 2 seconds.
Out of interest, when did Owen McKenna last have an unbeaten red jacket Irish Derby finalist?
Your memory doesn’t need to be that special!
As for Ballymac Finn, regular readers will recall the Dowling pup being flagged up in this column when he won on debut at Tralee in April.
Meanwhile Hello Hammond produced the fastest 750 clock in a year when landing the €4K Irish Cambridgeshire at Limerick.
At Cork, the Graham Holland trained Bockos Budsit clocked the fastest 525 in 14 months with a 27.93 run In the same kennel, look out too for a flying run from 17 month old British bred pup Romeo Hanzo in easily the quickest 525 of the week at Clonmel and followed up with a flying Shelbourne run on Saturday.
At Galway, Magical Zoraya was the first ’21 whelp to break 29.00 for the standard when recording the fastest time of the week.
