West of Ireland syndicate ready to cheer home Flooring Porter – in the flesh!
THE house ought to have been brought down when Flooring Porter returned to the famed winners’ enclosure after landing the Stayers Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival last year . . . except there was no one there!
The behind-closed-doors meeting was the legacy of Covid-19 and naturally put a dampener on the celebrations of the horse’s West of Ireland owners who were confined to nervously watching the big race unfold at home.
But Kerril Creaven, Alan Sweeney, Edward Hogarty and Tommy Sweeney are primed to have “two parties in one” if Flooring Porter can retain his staying hurdling crown in the Cotswolds next Thursday.
With their flights and accommodation – the quartet are staying in the town’s Holiday Inn – long booked for the Cheltenham Festival, the Flooring Porter Syndicate can’t wait to cheer home their pride and joy in the flesh.
Though not being present for the horse’s heroics last year did take some of the gloss off an unforgettable day – the syndicate were showered with congratulations from near and far – Flooring Porter’s owners will always cherish their horse’s memorable 12/1 triumph in 2021.
Creaven, the former Killimordaly hurler, can’t wait to get to Cheltenham. “We are counting down the minutes and it’s hard to think of anything else.
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