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First and second in the race a year ago, Lossiemouth and Teahupoo are set for an intriguing rematch in the Grade 1 Bar One Racing Hatton's Grace Hurdle on the second day of the Fairyhouse Winter Festival on Sunday, November 30.
One of the few dual-purpose jockeys of the modern era, Maxwell has the distinction of winning the Leopardstown Chase and riding in a three-year-old fillies maiden on the Flat around the Foxrock track. There can't be too many jockeys with that double on their CV. He was a jack of all trades.
It might only have been a handicap hurdle for horses rated 120 or less but you would swear Ragmans Corner was after winning the Troytown such was the rip-roaring reception he received at Navan in September.
In the space of four days he doubled the number of winners in his whole career thanks to a horse called Rock Ya Boy Ya, who is trained in Stamullen by Francis Casey. Rock Ya Boy Ya rocked up to Killarney last Sunday week as a 14-1 outsider for a handicap hurdle but he belied those odds with an emphatic success under a polished ride from Balfe. Four days later the pair teamed up again, this time at Tramore, and repeated the dose in similarly decisive style, this time justifying 7-4 favouritism by five and a half lengths.
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James is the 19-year-old son of trainer Matthew, probably best known for his exploits with 2020 Stayers' Hurdle runner-up Ronald Pump, and he has already celebrated 33 winners in the saddle. The highlight of those 33? The aforementioned Ulster National, of course.
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