Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
DREAM COMES TRUE FOR KATIE
JOCKEY Katie O’farrell enjoyed the greatest day of her racing life when registering a first career double on Low Sun and Flemenstorm in Fairyhouse yesterday.
The 7lb. claimer produced 25/1 shot Low Sun with a perfectly-timed challenge to beat front-runner Yaha Fizz in the €100,000 RYBO Handicap Hurdle and followed-up on board Flemenstorm in the Ratoath Pharmacy Ladies National.
And she declared: “I dream about riding a double every day I go racing, so this is great, although I didn’t see it coming.”
Earlier, Willie Mullins won the Grade 2 Boylesports Juvenile Hurdle with favourite Saglawy. The winner will now head for the Grade 1 fouryear-old hurdle on the final day of next week’s Punchestown Festival.
But Mullins was out of luck with another favourite Asthuria, which attempted to make all in the mares chase before being brushed aside by 12/1 shot Youcantcallherthat, trained and ridden by Denis Hogan, who said: “She’s improving all the time and she just keeps winning.”
ZATTENTION switches back to the flat with a seven-race card in Dundalk tonight and Michael Halford’s course winner Andesh, expected to improve for his recent return to action, when a close third behind Mazucci here, is napped to land the four-runner Irish Stallion Farms Race.
ZTOMORROW’S meeting in Tipperary has been cancelled following torrential rain which left parts of the track waterlogged And Friday’s Kilbeggan, cancelled on Monday, has now been transferred to Limerick.