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Limerick jockeys enjoy success across the Longines Irish Champions weekend

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Limerick jockeys enjoy success across the Longines Irish Champions weekend

Chris Hayes won the Moyglare Stud Stakes on Tahiyra during day two of the Longines Irish Champions Weekend at The Curragh Racecourse in Kildare.

Limerick jockeys enjoy success across the Longines Irish Champions weekend. Paddy Twomey's Pearls Galore won the Group 1 Coolmore America Justify Matron Stakes. Aidan O'Brien and Ryan Moore won KPMG Champions Juvenile Stake with Auguste Rodin. Charlie and Mark Johnston enjoyed the first British-based success of the weekend as I'm A Gambler and Tom Marquand roared to victory in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Sovereign Path Handicap. For the second year in a row the World Pool event was a €1,000,00 highlight. Luxembourg won it.

Limerick jockeys enjoy success across the Longines Irish Champions weekend. Tahiyra, John Quinn's maiden winner, won the Group 1 Moyglare Stud Stakes. The John Quinn-trained Highfield Princess won in the Al Basti Equiworld Dubai Flying Five Stake. Above The Curve won Group 2 Moylglade jewels Blandford St. Stables. Joseph O'Brien completed a double on the card when Al Riffa won a Group1 Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stages.

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