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Article: Loughrea builder Paddy Sweeney, who was on a family holiday to Dubai, missed out on a 20/1 triumph for his Pat Flynn-trained Bahrain Storm in the richest renewal of Galway's Arthur Guinness Handicap Hurdle.
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- Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 31, 2009
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Loughrea builder Paddy Sweeney, who was on a family holiday to Dubai, missed out on a 20/1 triumph for his Pat Flynn-trained Bahrain Storm in the richest renewal of Galway's Arthur Guinness Handicap Hurdle.
The huge crowd thronging the Ballybrit enclosure for a sunny Ladies Day saw 22-year-old claimer Stephen Gray deliver a knock-out blow to those who contributed to a major plunge on Deutschland.
Backed as if defeat were out of the question, the latter ultimately had to be content with a rear view of the revitalised Bahrain Storm which had taken control soon after clearing the second-last.
Clearly not as effective over the minor obstacles as ...