Seventh heaven for Beach in Champions decider at Tralee

SEVEN BEACH broke his own seven-day-old track record as he landed his third major event of the year in winning the Callaway Pro Am @Stud Race Of Champions final over 550 yards at Tralee's Kingdom Stadium.

Jennifer O'Donnell's star had the race won in a matter of strides after pinging out of trap six and was quickly lengths clear of his rivals.

Indeed, the only race was really against the clock with there being little doubt that the €15,000 first prize was heading the way of his owners, the Beach Boys Trio Syndicate in the week of the passing of Brian Wilson the co-founder of the iconic 60s group bearing their name.

At the line, Seven Beach was four lengths to the good of strong-finishing Callaway Knegere in posting 29.09sec, six spots faster than he mark he had set in the heats.

He duly added the Race Of Champions to the Shelbourne Gold Cup and Waterford Select Stakes titles already on his cv in 2025.

Magical Luka was another to break a track record on the card, Pat Guilfoyle's exciting unbeaten youngster taking heat three in the second round of the Moorstown Kennels Stakes over the 500 yards trip in 26.64sec, an improvement of six spots on the previous mark set by kennelmate Daleroad Devon last September.

The October 2023 son of King Sheeran and Magical Mary scored by eight lengths and has now won his five career races by an aggregate of almost 36.