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Limerick jockey Wesley Joyce gets Without Love to stretch for the win at Dundalk | PICTURE: Patrick McCann, Racing Post
STRAPPING grey gelding Blow Wind Blow made pretty much all of the running in the maiden hurdle at Thurles last week, his fourth start to date.
The JP McManus home bred paid 3-1 and he won by 13 lengths on a very testing surface for Mark Walsh, conditions he clearly relished.
“He’ll be a lovely horse when he goes over a fence,” trainer Enda Bolger said. “He has a big frame to fill into.”
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Newcastle, Co Dublin trainer Cian Hughes made it two winners from just three runners at Dundalk so far this year when Without Love took out the nightcap race last Friday.
Limerick jockey Wesley Joyce guided the four-year-old gelding home by a neck at odds of 9-2.
The pair did well to get the verdict having been held up for a run between the final two furlongs.
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