Burning Ambition raises his game with Moira open success

We kicked off the weekend in the north on Saturday at the Maralin track near Moira. This used to be a fine galloping track but changes have taken place which have made it a tighter, sharper circuit. It’s not ideal, but it’s a course that still provides competitive racing and is well supported by the enthusiastic northern pointing followers.

Top local trainers Warren Ewing, Colin McKeever, Brian Hamilton, Stuart Crawford and Colin McBratney were represented in the four-year-old maiden but none of them could prevent a continuation of the trend of Wexford success as Jamie Codd got the Denis Murphy-trained Beyondthestorm home by a neck from the Ewing-trained Presented Well.

The runner-up had run well until his fall at the second-last at Kirkistown and it was a good performance by the first-time-out winner who was handily placed all the way.