A jockey who piloted a plane to the 2021 Cheltenham Festival and landed an 80-1 winner has spied another shock victory. Sean Flanagan, who scored on rank outsider Jeff Kidder in the Boodles Juvenile Handicap Hurdle at Prestbury Park in March, is booked to ride Snow Falcon in the Galway Plate next Wednesday.
The Wexford jockey missed a winner at last year's Ballybrit festival, as he was sidelined with a broken sternum and other nasty injuries following a fall.
Flanagan hopes Snow Falcon, 25-1 with bookmakers Paddy Power, will be worth the wait. "He’s won a few Grade 2s and the better the ground, the better he will be so the weather suits us," he said.
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