Eddies Miracle rises to Challenge with spirited run on Flat

A Flat race at Leopardstown over 1m2f is not somewhere you would expect a proven three-mile point-to-pointer to appear.

However, six days after dead-heating for second at Tinahely, Eddies Miracle lined up in the final leg of the 2018 Corinthian Challenge at the Foxrock venue and was far from disgraced.

Ridden by his handler David Christie’s son David, who is a familiar face on the point-to-point circuit, the ten-year-old outsider finished a commendable third, surrounded by a bunch of Flat handicappers.