Crokes in Limbo
While officially at the time of writing, they are due to go to O’Moore Park in Portlaoise on Saturday for their rescheduled All-Ireland Senior Club Championship Semi-Final with Errigal Ciarán, Dr Crokes selector Denis Coleman admitted that the club are very much in limbo as to what will happen this weekend if the present cold snap continues.
“I wish I had a crystal ball to predict what will happen but if there is a change I hope it’s communicated to both teams in good time to allow them to make the necessary arrangements,” Mr Coleman told Kerry’s Eye Sport. Last Sunday’s scheduled semi-final between the pair was called off last Saturday as the weather was beginning to get more severe and the O’Moore Park pitch failed a pitch inspection.
While it was not a major source of disruption for the Killarney side as they were due to travel on the day itself last Sunday, the Crokes selector believes there will be a strong effort to play the game by the CCCC, due to the Senior Club Finals being scheduled for the following Sunday, January 19th.
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Snow hits millstreet event in Castleisland
The Millstreet club who ran their North Cork Cup meeting in Castleisland this year, were lucky to run off Saturday’s program but unfortunately Sunday’s finals had to be postponed and the event was subsequently abandoned.
The remaining rounds of the Stakes which commenced on Saturday will not be run. The two trial Stake places will now be filled from the reserves.
There was lively action on Day 1 and it appears that a few surprise results were possible. In the Bill Guiney All-Age Cup Alekhine is the favourite after a very impressive first round win over Mystery Master when he had a comfortable two length win and he is now outright 5-4 favourite to go all the way. He was due to meet Ballyduff Song in the last quarter-final down at the bottom of the draw. The long odds favourite right up in the first quarter was Ballymaccallaway who would have needed the points badly for making the Top 8 in the Champion Bitch Stakes at the National Meeting as can been seen in the points table included.
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