There was a distinctively Kilkenny GAA feel to last Tuesday’s all national hunt card at Gowran Park.This is so as the race titles featured several Kilkenny GAA stalwarts such as Brian Cody, JJ Delaney, Henry Shefflin etc.

Local Mooncoin-based handler Eoin Doyle is experiencing a stellar season and he continued his present purple patch courtesy of Bell Weir in the JJ Delaney & Kilkenny City & County Vitners Maiden Hurdle over two and a half miles.