Smart Four-Year-Old Winner By Walk In The Park

Bud Fox (4g Walk In The Park – Flaviana, by Flemensfirth) shaped like a smart prospect when quickening to a winning debut in Sunday’s four-year-old maiden at Bellharbour.

Four raced in a line after the second last, but the Derek O’Connor-trained and ridden newcomer produced a smart turn of foot to assert before the final fence. The Margaret Bleahen-owned gelding was ridden out on the run-in to score by two lengths.

Bred by John Lenihan out of a Flemensfirth mare, Bud Fox is bred on the same cross as Walk In The Park’s recent Grade 1 winner Final Demand and Thyestes Chase victor Nick Rockett.

Walk In The Park sired another point-to-point maiden winner the previous day at Dungarvan, where Broomfield Aderra (5m Walk In The Park – Back To Loughadera, by Bob Back) landed the five-year-old mares maiden by four lengths under Troy Walsh.

Trained by Aidan Fitzgerald for Ray Fitzgerald, she had shaped with promise when finishing fourth on debut last season and was sent off favourite to get off the mark on Saturday. Racing prominently through, she produced a fine jump at the last and kept on well to assert on the run-in.

The daughter of Walk In The Park was bred by JJ Harty.