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Sam Curling could add further depth to his team of mares in the open division with his stable star Angels Dawn having received a hunter certificate for the upcoming season, alongside the reigning champion point-to-point mare La Feline.
Sam Curling could add further depth to his team of mares in the open division with his stable star Angels Dawn having received a hunter certificate for the upcoming season, alongside the reigning champion point-to-point mare La Feline.
The latter is set to return to action this season following her record-breaking third consecutive champion point-to-point mares title which was secured in her career-best effort of splitting Lifetime Ambition and Samcro at Belharbour in February.
Curling has won that title in four of the last six years, thanks to that hat-trick heroine and the 2019 record-breaker Longhouse Music, and he looks to have a particularly strong hand towards adding to his title honours with stable star Angels Dawn also featuring on the hunter certificate list.
The Alfred Sweetman-owned and bred nine-year-old gained Cheltenham Festival success for the Skehanagh Stables team when outbattling Stumptown to land the 2023 Kim Muir Chase under Pa King, and whilst her bid to retain that crown came to an end when she fell two-out earlier this season, she did finish a fine third in the Thyestes Chase at Gowran in January.
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With a track mark of 143 over fences, she is one of the more notable early additions to the open division this season
Two mares’ open races are scheduled throughout the pre-Christmas term beginning at the Tipperary Foxhounds fixture at Lisronagh on Saturday, November 2nd, followed three weeks later by a race at Boulta on Saturday, November 23rd, at the West Waterford Foxhounds card.
