Tingarran Express

Trained by Denise Marie O'Shea out of Cloyne in County Cork, Tingarran Express only got off the mark for the first time at Clonmel in April 2024, which means the first win came relatively late in life. Since then it has added two more, the most recent coming at Tramore on 15 August 2025 — a win that arrived nine months ago and remains the high point of what has otherwise been a quietly modest career.

The recent form makes for interesting reading. A ninth, a third, a fifth, and then a win — that sequence from earlier in the year showed a horse building through the gears before striking. The two blank runs since suggest it has come back to earth a little, though with a race just yesterday it is clearly still in training and very much part of O'Shea's plans. The yard has sent out just one winner this season, so resources are limited, but the fact that Tingarran Express is still being actively campaigned at nine says the team believe there is still something to aim at.

Regular partner Brian Hayes has ridden the horse 12 times and taken 1 win from those outings — matching that 1-in-12 career ratio almost exactly. It is a steady if unspectacular partnership, the kind that develops through familiarity rather than fireworks. For a horse like this, continuity matters, and Hayes clearly knows what he is sitting on. Tingarran Express is not a horse that is going to light up a big occasion, but it is the sort of dependable, experienced campaigner that smaller yards like O'Shea's rely on to keep ticking along through a season.