Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

DREAM COMES TRUE FOR KATIE

- BY PETER O’HEHIR

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.

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