A HORSE PURCHASED for €800 won the Tote Galway Plate worth €270,000 at the Galway races on Wednesday
The seven-year-old horse named Hewick rode by jockey Jordan Gainford oversaw the challenge of Darasso to take home the honours.
Trainer John ‘Shark’ Hanlon said: "He is a great horse, is very easy to train and it is great for the team at home as he is our star."
“Our game has gone very tough with the price of feed and everything, and we are a small yard. It is getting harder every day and to win this is unreal."
“My mother and father haven’t been racing for three years, I am coming here all my life, so it is great for everyone. This and the Kerry National, I have both won and we’ll head back to Kerry with him now."
Galway , Ireland - 27 July 2022; Jockey Jordan Gainford (Photo By Seb Daly/Sportsfile via Getty Images)Adding on the horses orgins, Hanlon said: "He came from the sales in Goresbridge for €800. I met this horse coming in the back gate with a lovely walk and Paddy Mullins had said to me years ago ‘if a horse can’t walk, he can’t run’.
I went there to buy another horse and live only five minutes from the sales company so went home for grub, but was thinking about him and went back down and bought him.
“It has been a dream since there as he was unlucky to fall in his point to points, and otherwise would have been sold.”
He gave him a great ride, knew the horse and fair do’s to Gordon (Elliott) who allowed me use the chap – he could have told him to ride one of his but said ‘your horse has a chance’ so allowed me use him. He was the first man to shake my hand coming back in
