Master Speaker Captures First Win of 2019 at Killarney

Master Speaker captures his third win in an impressive 18 months with victory in the featured Tote Handicap at Killarney.

The evergreen nine-year-old gelding was recording his fifth career win in this mile event, and his third since joining the Lusk handler last year.

The 8/1 chance, sporting the colours of Shamrock Thoroughbreds which includes former Flat handicapper Ciaran Kennelly, made good headway on the outer to lead a furlong out and drew clear for Chris Hayes to score by two and three quarter lengths.

Yuften kept on to take the runner-up spot, with Tony The Gent another half a length away in third.

McGuinness said, “We are going to Galway with him. There was a good pot of money here (over 15,000 to the winner) and we said we’d come and have a whack at it. The horse is in great form and he worked well the other day.

“I didn’t enter him in the Galway Mile because I didn’t think he’d get into it, so he goes for the seven (furlongs) on the Sunday and he’ll run in the 0-90 earlier in the week.