Donn McClean: Expect fireworks as Townend and Blackmore do battle for jockey's title
There will be intriguing clashes all week at Punchestown between the pair of leading jockeys, and their amateur equivalents, beginning tomorrow.
By Donn McClean
Monday 26 Apr 2021, 4:48 PM
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Paul Townend on Concertista (green) jumping the last to beat Rachael Blackmore on Minella Melody at Fairyhouse in November.
Image: Peter Mooney/INPHO
Paul Townend on Concertista (green) jumping the last to beat Rachael Blackmore on Minella Melody at Fairyhouse in November.
Image: Peter Mooney/INPHO
EGALITY MANS WAS in front and travelling well in the Grade 2 Colm Quinn BMW Novice Hurdle at Fairyhouse three weeks ago when he came down at the third last flight. It looked like an awkward fall. Power Of Pause was tracking the leader at the time, he had nowhere to go when his stable companion fell in front of him and he and Bryan Cooper were taken down too.