Moyross jockey Wesley Joyce among winners in terrific spell for Limerick connections

BALLINGARRY’S Billy Lee and Moyross jockey Wesley Joyce were both in the winners’ enclosure at Roscommon on Tuesday last.

Lee was the big scorer on the day as he teamed up Paddy Twomey to land the Listed Lenebane Stakes on the four-year-old La Isla Mujeres. Owned by Moyglare Stud, the 7/2 chance raced up with the pace and asserted from over a furlong from the finish to win by a cosy three and a half lengths from the John Nallen-trained 16/1 shot Cristal Clere.

Lee had earlier won the second leg of the seven-furlong handicap on the Edward Lynam-trained Gosford. The Trevor Dalzell-owned four-year-old didn’t get the clearest of runs but came with a late effort to win by half a length from Gavin Cromwell’s Saffredi.

Wesley Joyce’s success came on the Philip Byrne-trained Out On Friday which scored the narrowest of wins in the second of the 10-furlong handicaps. Owned and bred by Anthony Deegan, the 14/1 shot made all the running and gamely held on to win by a nose from Slieve Binnian with Henry de Bromhead’s Annexation only a shorthead away in third place.