Name: Kieran Power
Age: 19
From: Dungarvan
It was a red letter day for 19-year-old Kieran Power at Moig South as he partnered his first winner between the flags when winning aboard the Declan Queally handled Morrie In D Quarry.
How did you get involved with horses?
I started off when I was very young doing hunting and fun rides with the Dungarvan Farmers Hunt.
My father has always been mad keen into point-to-pointing and my two brothers would have also hunted and we would have headed off there every Sunday.
Where was your first experience with racehorses?
My father bred two point-to-pointers and my brother and I started training them at home and then I also started riding out with Shane O’Brien and then Declan Queally.
Where are you working at present?
I am currently in Kildalton College studying agriculture and I have been riding out now in Declan’s for the last three years at the weekends.
It works out well as our family home is only six minutes away from Declan. We have a dairy farm at home so I’m kept busy.
Did any of your other brothers get involved in point-to-pointing?
One of my brothers is a runner and my other brother Jerome is in college in Limerick and rides out for Derek O’Connor every morning.
Is he a horse you would have been familiar with Morrie In D Quarry?
I would have, I have ridden him Declan’s and I schooled him a couple of times and we get on well with one another.
He told me last week I could ride him and I was absolutely over the moon when he told me. He is a nice old ride.
Were you expecting him to run a big race on Sunday?
Yea we were really, he had been working well at home in fairness to him.
What are the plans for him now?
I presume he will go for a winners race next.
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Kieran Power pictured above with Molly Queally, daughter of winning handler Declan Queally
It must have been some thrill to ride your first winner?
It was wicked altogether, it was mighty!
Were any of your family there for the win on Sunday?
They were all there, my grandmother, my aunty, my father, my mother and my brother Jerome.
It was brilliant to have them all there.
I’d imagine they got some kick out of the winner?
Oh they were delighted, my father especially he was over the moon. We have watched the video over 50 times at this stage!
What are your ambitions for this season?
Stay tipping away, stay riding out and if anyone wants me to school something or ride anything I will.
Any horses to follow for the season?
Beau’s Candle he’s a nice horse and if he runs this weekend he will run a big race.
Is there any upcoming riders in Declan’s that we should be keeping an eye on?
Conor Reddy, he is a nice rider and is based with Declan full-time. He is in the process of getting his license at the moment.
Who is your biggest influence in racing?
I suppose my father and my brother Jerome.
Declan has also been a great help. He walked the track with me on Sunday morning and he knows the horse inside out from owning and training him, he just told me to keep it simple and if I got my chance take it. He doesn’t complicate things.
Have you any interests outside of racing?
Farming I suppose, not much time for anything else as I’d be busy with the farming and the horses.
We have two point-to-pointers at home and Declan very kindly lets us canter them up on his gallop. They will run under my father’s name Edmund Power when they are ready.
Congratulations to Dungarvan native %uD835%uDDDE%uD835%uDDF6%uD835%uDDF2%uD835%uDDFF%uD835%uDDEE%uD835%uDDFB %uD835%uDDE3%uD835%uDDFC%uD835%uDE04%uD835%uDDF2%uD835%uDDFF who partnered his first point-to-point winner aboard the Declan Queally trained Morrie In D Quarry.
— p2p.ie (@irishp2p) November 30, 2023
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