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Mac Swiney and Rory Cleary (far side) just hold off Poetic Flare and Kevin Manning to give Jim Bolger a one-two in the Irish 2000 Guineas. \ Healy Racing
It always seemed one of the stranger quirks of the record book that Jim Bolger hadn’t trained an Irish 2,000 Guineas winner but that anomaly was corrected emphatically at the Curragh on Saturday when the Coolcullen trainer sent out a one-two in the colts’ classic.
After Poetic Flare won the British version of this race three weeks ago, the 79-year-old remarked that there was nothing between him and Mac Swiney at home, and not for the first time, he was dead right. Mac Swiney held off his stablemate by a short head, the pair clear of their other rivals, in what was a remarkable training and breeding performance, as Bolger also reared both colts.
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