This article is from page 47 of the 2005-09-20 edition of The Clare People. OCR mistakes are to be expected so download the original SWF or the rendered page 47 JPG
THERE was a huge attendance present at the Galway track on Sat- urday night for the benefit meeting in aid of the Loughrea hurling club. There was some good prizes on of- fer in all evelen races with a big en- try of Clare dogs.
The tenth race on the card, which was the final A4 stake worth €850, went to Danielle’s Gift owned by Danielle Dillon of Cooraclare. The dog has shown good form of late at Galway and running from trap one the winners time was 29.05 sec- onds.
There was another very good run
by Pat Hogan’s Aulton Nikita in race four running from trap four. The Barefield man’s dog recorded a time of 28.89, which was the fastest time of the night.
It was smiles all round after race six when Sean Hehir’s Dunshallagh Woods scored in a time of 29.31 seconds.
Baby Leyton, owned by Bertie and Mary O’Doherty of Ennis, got Clare owners off to a great start with their charge winning race three in a time of 29.40. This was Baby Leyton’s second win of the weekend having won race seven on the Thursday night card in a time of 29.60.
Paddy Conlon of Cree made a
welcome return to the winners en- closure on Friday night with Craga- knock Veri in race one. Ler Soirka had set Clare owners off to a good start winning race one for owner John Fitzgerald of Kilrush. Cree Yank was a winner for Caroline Gould at Kilrush at Limerick on Thursday night.