Bar One Racing’s race sponsorships from mid-November at Navan, at the Winter Festival two weeks after this at Fairyhouse, and at Cork a week later, are well worth keeping an eye on. Year on year, they produce a source of classy winners. Here are examples from this year following the Christmas Festival meetings at Leopardstown, Limerick and Kempton Park.
CROKE PARK (trained by Gordon Elliott) – Winner of the Grade 1 Bar One Racing Drinmore Novice Chase at Fairyhouse on December 1st, wins the Grade 1 Racing Post Long Distance Novice Chase at Leopardstown on December 26th.
WENDROCK (Gordon Elliott) – Third in a Bar One Racing-sponsored maiden hurdle at Navan, as part of the Navan Racing Festival, on November 17th, wins a Leopardstown maiden hurdle on December 27th.
SOLNESS (Joseph O’Brien) – Narrowly beaten when second in the Grade 2 Bar One Racing Fortria Chase at Navan on November 16th, lands a Grade 1 chase at Leopardstown on December 27th.
ROMEO COOLIO (Gordon Elliott) – Second in the Grade 2 Bar One Racing Royal Bond Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse on December 1st, wins a Grade 1 novice hurdle at Leopardstown on December 27th.
ENNISKERRY (Barry Connell) – Second to British raider Washington in a €100,000 Bar One Racing-sponsored Listed handicap hurdle at Fairyhouse on December 1st, wins a handicap hurdle at the Leopardstown Christmas Festival on December 27th.
PERVEVAL LEGALLOIS (Gavin Cromwell) – Fourth in the Bar One Racing Troytown Handicap Chase at Navan on November 17th, wins a €200,000 handicap chase at Leopardstown on December 27th.
HOME BY THE LEE (Joseph O’Brien) – Winner of the Grade 2 Railway Bar Lismullen Hurdle at the Navan Racing Festival on November 16th, follows up in the Grade 1 Savills Hurdle at Leopardstown on December 28th.
BANBRIDGE (Joseph O’Brien) – Was set to challenge eventual winner Energumene when falling at the last fence in the Grade 2 Bar One Racing Hilly Way Chase at Cork on December 8th, wins the £260,050 Grade 1 King George VI Chase at Kempton Park on December 26th.
LOSSIEMOUTH (Willie Mullins) – Winner of the €120,000 Grade 1 Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on December 1st, finishes second to Cheltenham Champion Hurdle favourite Constitution Hill in the £130,000 Grade 1 Christmas Hurdle at Kempton Park on December 26th.
IMPAIRE ET PASSE (Willie Mullins) – Winner of a beginners’ chase at the Winter Festival at Fairyhouse on November 30th, wins the Grade 1 Faugheen Novice Chase at Limerick on December 28th.
Bar One Racing’s race sponsorships from mid-November at Navan, at the Winter Festival two weeks after this at Fairyhouse, and at Cork a week after this, are well worth keeping an eye on.
