McCain finds the key to well-bred Irish Hawke

Winning a novice handicap hurdle at Bangor wasn't the job Irish Hawke was bred to do, but nevertheless he achieved it.

A Montjeu half-brother to a couple of Group 2 winners, it was little wonder he attracted plenty of attention when he first went through the ring for he fetched €280,000 at Goffs as a yearling, but although he won a maiden at Lingfield for Luca Cumani on the Flat, he failed to build on that in two subsequent starts.

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