No better place to start than Longford where Carba Hurricane landed the €10,000 local Derby for owner Paul Scally and trainer Pat Guilfoyle. It was the black’s 12 race and his record is seven wins and five second places.
Onto Shelbourne and the €7,500 Open 550 final where Lenson Blinder narrowly overcame kennelmate Clona Blaze.
He was superbly backed up by another Guilfoyle trained pup in Magical Logan whose 28.16 run for the standard – just two spots off the year’s quickest – earns the ‘Performance of the Week’ nomination.
The other major event up for grabs is the Laurels and Rockybay Foley continues to be a huge crowd pleaser at Cork. His semi final victory was his 15th win in 19 races. Kieran Lynch’s dog has the three fastest 525 runs of the year, and five of the fastest six. Burgess Superior turned over hotpot Mays Buywise in the unraced stake at Waterford.
| CLONMEL | 29.35 | EMERS JEWEL | (Skywalker Puma-Emers Skylark, Oct 16) |
| CURRAHEEN PARK | 28.00 | ROCKYBAY FOLEY | (Sparta Maestro-Ironically, Aug 15) |
| DERRY | 27.69 | CENTRAL BOSS | (Paradise Madison-Highview Beauty, Jun 15) |
| DRUMBO PARK | 28.99 | BANGOR LILY | (Droopys Cain-Bangor Alice, Mar 15) |
| DUNDALK | 30.05 | CLIFFORDS PICK | (Scolari Me Daddy-Badminton Maid, Feb 16) |
| ENNISCORTHY | 29.20 | CILL DUBH CHOICE | (Paradise Madison-Cill Dubh Liz, Sep 16) |
| GALWAY | 29.15 | MIST | (Kinloch Brae-Ballykett Lady, Oct 16) |
| KILKENNY | 29.14 | BULL RUN BYTE | (Romeo Recruit-Tullowmac Java, Nov 16) |
| LIFFORD | 19.12 | PENTAGON LAD | (Belles Direction-Jolly Millie, Aug 16) |
| LIMERICK | 18.88 | ROCKALONG AQUA | (Secreto-Looster Bets, Sep 16) |
| LONGFORD | 29.88 | CABRA HURRICANE | (Kinloch Brae-Cabra Ebony, Sep 16) |
| MULLINGAR | 29.93 | CATUNDA CHRIS | (Kinloch Brae-Airforce Allstar, Jun 14) |
| NEWBRIDGE | 29.23 | EASTWING | (Droopys Nidge-Droopys Toulouse, Sep 16) |
| SHELBOURNE PARK | 28.16 | MAGICAL LOGAN | (Tarsna Havana-Sizzling Sarah, Oct 16) |
| 29.75 | LENSON BLINDER | (Crash-Global Liberty, May 16) | |
| THURLES PARK | 17.54 | DALCASH BEHOLD | (Taylors Sky-Dalcash Devici, Jun 16) |
| TRALEE | 28.38 | GONE TO GROUND | (Superior Product-Laughil Lucy, Aug 16) |
| WATERFORD | 28.58 | BURGESS SUPERIOR | (Superior Product-Morningfavourite, Aug 16) |
| YOUGHAL | 29.37 | WATCH OUT MATTY | (Sir Paddy-Jessie Joe, Oct 16) |
