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Horse racing in Mullingar may have inspired the title of this one. I first heard it played many years ago by members of the Moate Céilí Band. The tune has come and gone in my head until I recently heard it played by the Mulcahy family of Co. Kerry, who played it on their CD ‘Reelin’ In’.
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